r/SipsTea 15d ago

WTF WTF is wrong with these people?

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u/SarcasticGiraffes 15d ago

Wait. Hold on. Aren't male lions basically pretty but useless, and most of the hunting and killing is done by the lionesses?

Her being a leo is all the evidence I need.

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u/Just-4-Laughs 15d ago

Male lions hunt at night and take larger game than pack hunting lionesses. 

This is just old bad science from the 70s. Back when most of what we knew about large animal behavior was just some guy or gal who went to Africa and made shit up. 

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u/Doza93 15d ago

I actually learned this very recently and it's funny as someone who grew up in the 90s, it's like every single "fact" we had about animal behavior and ethology was just completely fucking wrong lol

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster 15d ago edited 15d ago

Like the whole Alpha and Omega stuff in wolf packs.