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For centuries, the bear was worshiped in many cultures and, according to 'The Bear - History of a Fallen King' by Michel Pastoureau ( 2007 ), the brown bear was the reigning king of beasts until Charlemagne declared war upon the bear because of superstitious reasons and the fact that many people were still worshiping the bear. It was he who, after carefully considering the animals he knew of, declared the lion as the new king of beasts.
Reality check: there is no true 'king of beasts'. 
I'm back! I know you all missed me XD
Here are a few pics from the mara I found including Notch. I also found out the names of the first two males from a comment written by someone working in a mara predaor project named Sara Blackburn, the subadults. They are called Rescue and Sebastian, here are their profiles: http://www.livingwithlions.org/mara/lions/rescue/ Overall the website is quite good actually. The Lions of Masai Mara !! Masai Mara has one of the highest densities of Lions anywhere in World..some experts say it is indeed the highest..there are between 450 to 500 Lions in it's 1510 Sq kms! According to a recent IUCN study, the density of Lion population in Masai Mara is 30 Lions per 100 sq kms!
I had some amazing sightings in the blissful 3 weeks i spent in August 2010. We saw a total of 30 different adult Lions (most likely different)...over 40 adult Lioness...many sub-adults..about 5 actual hunts..9 attempts...these are a sample of my best Lion pictures....
 *This image is copyright of its original author A pair or a 'coalition' of young Lions we saw one early morning..in fact we heard them roaring very close to our tents that night..i was camping in the middle of the Mara with a photographer friend, Michael. You can make out by their sparse manes that they are yet to fully mature..they were quite tentative and tense as it was not their territory...
 *This image is copyright of its original author One of the young Lions looking back at his partner...i love his auburn colour in the golden glow of the morning sun..
 *This image is copyright of its original author One of the several Lions we saw..this one was walking at a steady pace one early morning..not even pausing to glance at us..notice the high grass one can see at this time of the year...
 *This image is copyright of its original author We came across this Lion on a Topi kill..well hidden in a 'nallah'...i barely managed to get a picture through the thick, thorny bushes...
 *This image is copyright of its original author One of the two beautiful males in another coalition of Lions..we came across several of these male-only coalitions...the biggest one was five in number !
 *This image is copyright of its original author He was looking worried at some Vultures swooping down to their Buffalo kill...
 *This image is copyright of its original author One of the three males in another coalition...notice the spray as he is marking a fallen tree..
 *This image is copyright of its original author His two partners..walking close by...they had a determined walk at a good pace..as if they a distant territory in mind...
 *This image is copyright of its original author Another handsome dark-maned Lion.....
 *This image is copyright of its original author One early morning we came across this big male trying to drag a young Buffalo kill...
 *This image is copyright of its original author He was trying to get a good bite at the Buffalo..this is a full-frame shot..we were really close!!
 *This image is copyright of its original author This Lion is nick-named 'Notch' and is made famous by the BBC film 'Big Cat Diary'
 *This image is copyright of its original author 'Notch' is indeed a very handsome, Black-maned Lion..notice the scars on his face..and all over his body..he is a veteran of the Mara Plains..and heads a coalition of five strong male Lions!!
 *This image is copyright of its original author A 'cat nap' in progress..Lions are champion sleepers!
Posted by Sarath C R at 1:48 AM
Lions and the Rain.
Credits to Caters News Agency  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author C-boy and Hildur, credits to Michael Nichols  *This image is copyright of its original author
@LionKiss:
I love the lions like you. But, objectively, the lion is not an exceptionnal animal. Its behaviour is an apex predator's one, nothing more. What you say about lion you can say the same thing about tiger. But the lion, compared to tiger, has always been the closest big predator out of the Europa continent. Subjectively, I'm like you, I love the lion because of its mane, dark mane, because of its look. And because it is a very, very demonstrative animal. And because of that the men can very easily identify themselves with him. But the lion is not like men at all, lions don't make the war against other lions. Don't be anthropomorphic, that is a serious judgment mistake. The lions are only a link of the chain of life, nothing else. Otherwise that would be catastrophic. 
The new illustration made by Mr. Mauricio Anton, and notice the African lions were also maneless in the past.
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 (12-31-2015, 03:22 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: The new illustration made by Mr. Mauricio Anton, and notice the African lions were also maneless in the past. I actually never knew ancient African male lions were almost maneless: let me guess, top one is ancient and bottom one is modern? What is the big cat on the far right (on the top illustration)? Looks like some sort of sabertooth? The quality is sort of grainy to tell the tooth shapes.
@Spalea:
I'm a relatively new poster here, and I've always been fascinated by lions as well (even though polar bears are my favorite mammalian carnivore and animal.) Their life is a lot like a tiger (cats DO indeed make "wars" at other cats: taking territory), and they are more directly social to each other than tigers. Lions stay together almost 24/7, while a male tiger might separate from a female tiger for days until he hunts a carcass and eats as a family. I'm not so sure about jaguars and leopards since those two are studied relatively less, but the two bigger pantherines are intriguing.   *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
(12-31-2015, 03:55 AM)Polar Wrote: @Spalea: I know lions are the only social cats, thank you ! But NO, wild cats don't make war at other cats for taking territories, they are in rivalry, competition, but they don't make war as humans do... By saying that you're anthropomorphic. Don't attributes to animals some human characters, The "to make war" fact implies a psychology that the animals are unable to own. Don't speak about war when we are talking about animals. War implies enslavement, conscious extermination, territories destruction and so on... 
@Spalea,
what do you mean by the term "anthropomorphic"? probably we must continue this conversation in this thread http://wildfact.com/forum/topic-why-are-...als?page=2 and probably @Majingilane could move some of the posts from here to that one, I will comment on the other topic
@LionKiss
To be anthropomorphic (towards lions and any animals) means that you lend, you attribute some human features and characters to the lion. Animals are not aware of good and evil. A lion which kill a zebra isn't fiercer than this zebra eating "mercilessly" some grass. The lion makes what his instinct pushes him to do, no more no less. But a non-scientist man seeing him to kill a prey would say that he is a cruel animal. The human psychology isn't at all the animal psychology. You cannot analyse the animals' behaviour with the same terms of the men' psychology without, at least, redefining these terms. But OK, when you see some lions or any predators hunting, you can of course deduce some form of intelligence because hunting a prey is much more difficult than grazing some grass.
I have myself said more than once that the lion is at war with the spotted hyena. This does not mean that these predators sit around discussing battle plans. But they certainly appear to greatly despise each other. Perhaps we should not get too involved in word usage and not put every word under a microscope.
Let's continue our conversation about Lion Behavior
here: http://wildfact.com/forum/topic-why-are-...als?page=2 @Spalea @ I quoted your last post there and I asked a question please check. |
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