[quote]Skinystudent wrote:
i find it hard to believe a lion that young would have a pride. it wouldn’t be wandering on its own for a start still being fairly young as well the folks that raised it wouldn’t have been into much danger but if it was fully grown, even play fighting with you, a lion would slaughter you.
its a cute story but i doubt some of the facts.
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YEAH!! That whole story is bull; pics or it didn’t… wait…
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Keep fucking with animals and you’ll end up like Grizzly Man.[/quote]
This. Exactly this.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
I"m a cold hearted bastard and even I smiled :)[/quote]
Going soft on us polo? If I was them, I would have shot it and used its hide as a rug for my master bedroom.
[quote]Dre the Hatchet wrote:
[quote]WolBarret wrote:
Keep fucking with animals and you’ll end up like Grizzly Man.[/quote]
This. Exactly this.[/quote]
I blame that shit on the woman and the bears keen sense of smell for blood. Freaking vaginas killed Grizzly Man.
[quote]Skinystudent wrote:
i find it hard to believe a lion that young would have a pride. it wouldn’t be wandering on its own for a start
still being fairly young as well the folks that raised it wouldn’t have been into much danger but if it was fully grown, even play fighting with you, a lion would slaughter you.
its a cute story but i doubt some of the facts.
hopefuly they did manage to reintroduce a hand reared lion though that’d be great[/quote]
This was actually a documentary on the Discovery Channel. The youtube exert way over simplifies the story and everything that lion went thru. But when you watch the entire documentary it was really interesting.
Basically they got this cub, tried raising him, realized they couldn’t, took him to a place where they were experimenting with successfully reintroducing lions into the wild. There was a huge lion that it lived with there and became friends. The huge lion ended up getting attacked by another lion and afterwards became very vicious and started attacking people. They had to shoot him as it was ripping one of the workers apart. This baby lion lost his friend and was pretty much alone and miserable. When the 2 guys who originally had the lion heard about what had happened to it’s friend and how depressed it was, they decided to visit. Thats when this happened. It was quite the tear jerker when you know the whole story, cuz that cub went thru a lot. The youtube video is full of shit, he didn’t have his own pride at the time. on the contrary they were worried about him because he was depressed and started making negative progress in regards to learning to survive on it’s own.
i can’t believe I wrote all that, but if I remember correctly thats how it all went down.
[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
[quote]Skinystudent wrote:
i find it hard to believe a lion that young would have a pride. it wouldn’t be wandering on its own for a start
still being fairly young as well the folks that raised it wouldn’t have been into much danger but if it was fully grown, even play fighting with you, a lion would slaughter you.
its a cute story but i doubt some of the facts.
hopefuly they did manage to reintroduce a hand reared lion though that’d be great[/quote]
This was actually a documentary on the Discovery Channel. The youtube exert way over simplifies the story and everything that lion went thru. But when you watch the entire documentary it was really interesting.
Basically they got this cub, tried raising him, realized they couldn’t, took him to a place where they were experimenting with successfully reintroducing lions into the wild. There was a huge lion that it lived with there and became friends. The huge lion ended up getting attacked by another lion and afterwards became very vicious and started attacking people. They had to shoot him as it was ripping one of the workers apart. This baby lion lost his friend and was pretty much alone and miserable. When the 2 guys who originally had the lion heard about what had happened to it’s friend and how depressed it was, they decided to visit. Thats when this happened. It was quite the tear jerker when you know the whole story, cuz that cub went thru a lot. The youtube video is full of shit, he didn’t have his own pride at the time. on the contrary they were worried about him because he was depressed and started making negative progress in regards to learning to survive on it’s own.
i can’t believe I wrote all that, but if I remember correctly thats how it all went down. [/quote]
ok that i can accept and makes much more sense, i’ll keep an eye out for the documentary.
after 4 years of university and 2years working with animals you wouldn’t believe the kind of crap i’ve heard people talk about animals.
still amazes me the number of people who think animals aren’t dangerous
That’s cool but for every story like this, there’s a killer whale ripping the limbs off its’ trainer.
Grizzly man…
Elephants rampaging circuses…
Orca at Sea World introducing it’s trainer to the bottom of the pool…
Pet chimp ripping the face of it’s owner…
Sorry, perhaps I watch too much TV, but, as sweet and wonderful as this film is, there is not a chance in hell I would just let a full grown lion run up and jump on me. Lions are predators. We are predators. Once we are off the tit for a few years, we are capable of inflicting harm on others given the proper tools. These lions have large teeth capable of piercing your skull and claws that can disembowel your ass rather quickly.
Screw it. Show me I am wrong. Go put on a PETA t-shirt. Set up a camera at the zoo. Jump in and start hugging some lions. The Darwin Awards are always looking for new entries.
I’d have been scared if I were those guys when it started to run toward them.
damn nature, you scary.
All I have to say is that those dudes have balls of steel to stand there and smile while the lion jumped up and nuzzled them. Yeah, you might have had some good memories, but if it’s incisors were inches away from my jugular I would have a nice pool of urine at my feet.
Respect.
As far as Animals being dangerous. They absolutely are, they don’t understand that people arn’t a lion like they are, or arn’t a gorilla etc. They perceive you as one of them. They usually are much more powerful then us and even if you just piss them off and they don’t intend to seriously injure you it could kill you.
Steve Irwin was a freak accident, but accepted the risk and so did his family.
Grizzly man was killed by bears who weren’t from the area and didn’t know him…and got mauled (his girlfriend wouldn’t leave so she got killed also.
Circus Animals many times are abused and subjected to a very anxiety filled life and can snap.
Siegfried & Roy- Roy was grabbed around the neck by their tiger…some of its behavior suggested it was scared and as such was trying to get roy away from the danger (typical of mother and cub) but the neck…well you know.
A world famous bear trainer was killed by his favorite bear a year or two ago…he would regularly play and wrestle with the bear but one day it grabbed him the wrong way (neck i believe)
I mean if you imagined pissing off a bigger version of your dog or 100lbs version of your cat…suddenly they arn’t good pets anymore.
So in closing…Even when animals dont intend to kill us or seriously hurt us…depending on the animal it can be extremely dangerous. But people have a passion for these animals and understand the risks. (at least the legitimate ones who try very hard to save animals) I mean if you imagined pissing off a bigger version of your dog or 100lbs version of your cat…suddenly they arn’t good pets anymore.
[quote]jck524 wrote:
i seriously thought the lion was going to maul both of them in the end lol but i guess i was wrong[/quote]
Yea I was watching this on the Discovery Channel and was thinking that this could either end up very good or very bad when the lion started to trot towards them.
I wonder if that ever crossed the gentleman’s minds. The cameraman was probably hoping for the “alternate” ending.
You can usually tell by the posture of a lion whether or not is going into attack mode. He would have showed signs of territorial behavior before he went in for the attack. Plus he wasn’t bearing his fangs which is a good sign. Still kinds scary though.
Of course tigers and lions are predators and are not to be fucked around with, but you can tell by the lion’s body language that it wasn’t going to attack anyway…
Still even if it hugged you you could get hurt.
It was very neat to see it react the way that it did, but man, I’d shit myself if a lion came running at me like that, I don’t care what my history with the thing was.
CGI is k0ol… they should have this with… oh wait…this crocodile one is touching too
both those videos were awesome though but I’d be a little freaked out…
on a rabbit trail I thought this was the funniest damn thing ever when I saw it…
THIS…or you have no soul
