Lions of Sabi Sands

[Duco Ndona]

They are still living animals forced to make decisions with consequences. While we cannot judge them to human moral standards. It is fair to judge them on how their decisions impact their lives or attempt to puzzle together what drove an animal to such choices. Neglect and deliberately are not human terms, they are just descriptive terms of behaviour in general. Otherwise one would have to argue that lions don't hunt, sleep or eat. As those too are human terms. While they obviously do these things with intend.

For example, a lioness that constantly disrupts hunts is clearly doing something that negatively impacts the pride she is in. It is fair to say she is a bad huntress.
It is reasonable to look into what may be causing her behaviour. Which may for example be a bad leg, but also her being to young to properly hunt yet. Both options result into an vastly different perspective on the situation.

If we go by, lions being lions. It would just shut the door to ever understanding these animals and we wouldn't have nearly the amount of knowledge of animal behaviours we have today. Reply