Lion Saves Baby Calf From Another Lion
 

I know its been posted already, as I posted it, and its old but sweet. After watching this you really get the sense that the Lion is well aware that it is "King Of the Jungle".... and that with great power, comes great responsibility.

Its always interesting watching people humanize animals. Animals are not people... no matter how much people want to see humanity in them.

The most likely explanation is that in the lions very primitive brain, the simple hardwired program to nurture and protect a young lion kicked into gear and having a primitive brain which does little more than follow the strongest urge at the moment without the benefit of conscious thinking to interrupt behaviors, it didn't correctly distinguish the calf from any other young and acted in accordance to that urge.

More amusing is that once the lion was hungry, it likely ate the calf or another one did right in front of the "compassionate mother" as she watched and then picked at the carcass... of course, that video never gets posted... because after all, now its just a lion being a lion.

Sure, you're "probably right" but we just don't know...... it is just possible that the Lion had some second thought and people like to cling on to that possibility. After all, tinged by the question of why not just kill the calf right away and eat the carcass later? That's often what Lion's do.

Here's a stupid family who keep a Lion as a pet. No big surprise when the Lion attacks a guest:

Ralphy May had a funny bit about Siegfried & Roy and the tiger attack.

"the tiger went crazy! the tiger went crazy!"

"uhmm... no. The tiger went tiger"

The lion saved his own lunch for later, not a big deal

I got the sense the first lion was somewhat confused/curious by the presence and proximity of the jeep and photographers...and was opting not to eat the calf at the moment.

It's defense against the second lion? "You ain't taking my fucking lunch, bitch."

That's what I was thinking. He was like "get the fuck away from my meal".

idiots.

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Ever see a cat play with a mouse and not kill it right away? Same thing.

You are so clueless as usually. We are animals animals (yes, humans are animals too). The most clever and cynical ones. We grow other animals to kill and eat them. The grow them to make fur and leather. We kill them just for fun to post another "hunted" photo to facebook or instagram.

So "humanize" is a very stupid definition. There are many cases when animals grown humans. Whey didn't think about their "humanity". They just did it because they thought they have to do it.

'saves baby calf', what a crock of shit :1orglaugh

Obviously we are animals. We are evolved apes. To "humanize" an animal means to see or ascribe human traits (namely personality traits and human motivations) to its behaviors.

Our nearest relatives have brains that are over 3X smaller than ours and dozens of times fewer neuronal connections and never mind the limited structure and function, their brains are only capable of processing a tiny fraction of the information a human brain can. A cat's brain is again dozens of times more primitive to that of a higher ape.

Believing an animal raised a human because it "thought" it had to, demonstrates a real lack of understanding of how brains work at all. Stimulus triggering innate, instinctive behavior in a primitive animal, has nothing to do with "thinking".