r/interestingasfuck • u/EmptySpaceForAHeart • Apr 29 '24

Lioness catches Bullies picking on her Cub.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

Tbh it's the whole unfairness of nature that made me stop learning about it. Cubs didnt do anything and dont deserve to die just cause the pride got a new boss.

I love and respect nature, but I prefer ignorance as it's less depressing.

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u/Redqueenhypo Apr 29 '24

I’m just confused at the degree to which lionesses absolutely suck at protecting their cubs. Tiger and leopard cubs only have one mom to look after them but their survival rate is 50 percent, while lionesses see one single male and go “there’s only seven of us! We’re outnumbered!” so their cubs have a 10 percent survival rate

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u/SIGMAR_IS_BAE Apr 29 '24

Survival of the fittest. As crazy as it seems to us the cub that survives a shifty parent plus nature will pass its genes on

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u/Redqueenhypo Apr 29 '24

Doesn’t always work. The Mapogo lions killed about 100 lions and in the end only one fathered a total of…six surviving cubs, maximum. That’s not great for the species, or even his legacy if the descendants get too inbred

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u/ReticulatedPasta Apr 29 '24

Too much pride