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Have y'all seen this lion video?
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/05/03/viral-video-lion-tries-to-munch-on-baby-at-zoo/?tsp=1
She seems to be mistaking that baby in the hoodie for a tiny zebra. To the kids credit, he's completely unfazed.
Team Basement Cat
Knitting&Kitties
Knitting&Kitties
Re: Have y'all seen this lion video?
Holy shiit.
Am I the only one that probably would have picked my kid up a little sooner? I mean, if a Tiger can escape at the SF zoo, I'm pretty sure there is somewhere where a hungry lion can break some glass.
Poor lion. Stressful to be teased and frustrated like that. I wish they'd put some kind of one-way mirror coating on the glass so the lions were oblivious to their observers.
I really don't think the lion is mistaking the child for a zebra. Though the stripes probably make that bite-sized moving object quite visible.
I was being silly
Oh, I wasn't actually responding to you, sorry. I clicked on the link and saw a couple different comments about it as well. That lioness would be just as frustrated if the kid was sitting there in a blue hoody. I guess those stripes are part of what makes this video so "cute" to people.
Sorry, captive animals and the way they are treated are a bit of a personal soapbox issue for me.
This video pushes some long turned off evolutionary button in me and caused physical discomfort and frankly I wanted to reach through the screen, grab the baby, and run away.
I know intellectually the lion couldn't get out but I wanted to throat punch the people laughing about it.
Strange pregnancy thing or good fight or flight?
Maybe!
I thought of her making the little warbling "I want it" sound that cats make, though I know lion vocal registers aren't like that. My cats do that to each other. "That looks so fun! I want to get it and stuff!"
I'm on pixy's side. The cat knows it can't get at the baby and that's why its acting that way. It just looks curious, not "hungry".
I had the same reaction when I saw this on CNN. Of course 5 weeks post partum I may be having a hormonal reaction as well.
I think you are totally anthropomorphising that critter. Lions be lions, yo.