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(08-24-2023, 04:38 AM)afortich Wrote: Attacking and killing their parents/relatives do not prove that they have no memory or remember them.
One thing is the memory or capability of remembering, and another thing is competition and the savage nature of the lions. It is like saying that the person who killed any or all of his/her parent has no memory or don't remember after not seen them in 20 years.
We cannot measure their capability of recognizing/remembering/memory. How would you know if the lion that killed his father didn't remember him??
In my opinion, there’s extremely rare situations where I genuinely believe lions do remember their parents. Not sure if any of u are familiar with the story of Sekekama and TornNose but they were originally in a coalition of 5 but 3 members left leaving these two to control the Marsh Pride in Botswana. They have several male offspring that have survived and become independent. Near the Marsh Pride there’s another territory called the North Pride which was abandoned by Sekekama and TornNose and was eventually controlled by their sons after some time. It was even reported that there had been instances where fights had taken place between the fathers and sons. I believe that if offspring stay around the same area they were originally born, then they must be familiar with their fathers as they essentially become their opponents, ofcourse in most cases, young males travel far to conquer territory and this would make it harder/impossible to remember their parents.