North-East / Central / Equatorial African lions

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(05-09-2019, 10:20 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Forward from (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-gorilla...8#pid81578), I wonder which part of Central Africa this brutal draw between a lion and gorilla took place in the 19th century: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspa...00226.2.13

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Even though this same incident was shortly discussed in another thread, I would say that it is good to read that description and think if anyone has ever seen or heard or read these animals behaving like in this story.

I myself can´t take that story seriously at all. Whole article is like from some comic book and looks like, that someone has made easy money by writing fairy tales to newspapers in times, when people were easy to fool. There are so many myths and "urban legends" concerning animals based on that kind of old stories. Gorilla jumping several times 6 feet to the air to provoke a lion to attack :) That was the first time, when I laughed loud when reading this article first time in last autumn :)

I just say, read this article and descriptions about behavior of animals and try to fit then to real life situations. It is quite challenging. Anyway I personally think, that this guy who wrote that article made it all up for some reason, which I don´t know. But usually reporters get payed if something is published. Reply