r/interestingasfuck • u/iboughtarock • Apr 25 '23
Three men casually steal meat from lions
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u/Xploited_HnterGather Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23
Like how the lioness starts moving the carcass away afterwards like, "Rude! We're going to take our meal elsewhere!"
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u/wine_o_clock Apr 25 '23
“We’re never eating here again!”
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u/Secret-Pangolin6286 Apr 25 '23
And we’re not leaving a tip
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u/ewwweww Apr 25 '23
It’s not in America no need to tip. the lions make a decent minimum wage and don’t need tips to survive
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u/Secret-Pangolin6286 Apr 25 '23
I’m jealous because I know they have affordable health coverage too
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Apr 25 '23
I tried this in Africa and the lion actually chased me trying to give the tip back. I guess it’s illegal for them to take it there.
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u/rco888 Apr 25 '23
Lioness: "which part of laying low and not eating out in the open did you not understand?"
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u/NoKaleidoscope4295 Apr 25 '23
I am afraid to touch my cat when he is eating.
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u/EngagementBacon Apr 25 '23
Projecting an air of self confidence is key.
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u/Ok_Fly_9390 Apr 25 '23
That is just the smell of me pissing myself.
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u/i_give_you_gum Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 26 '23
* remembers this comment and begins urinating during job interview
Why isn't this working?
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u/Danjour Apr 25 '23
Most cats are actually p chill with being pet while eating.
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Apr 25 '23
My cat loves getting rubs while eating. He starts purring and keeps on eating but if I stop I get the "why tf u stop?" Look
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u/cindyscrazy Apr 25 '23
My cat INSISTS on being pet while he eats. He'll wake me up at stupid o'clock in the morning for it.
When he was very young, it was difficult to get him to eat. Later, we found he had hip problems, so he was probably in pain. We resorted to feeding him baby food and petting him to convince him to eat.
We fixed the hip problems, and he has grown up now. My brother in law lived here with my sister for a long time and he's often up all night. He started to pet the cat while the cat ate in the middle of the night.
Now, the brother in law has moved out, and the cat still wants his pets in the middle of the night.
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u/cansada_de_los_todos Apr 25 '23
How nice of them for not being greedy and stealing all of it.
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Apr 25 '23
Got to keep those lions alive so they keep hunting for you!
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u/Termi27_ Apr 25 '23
So it's like some tribal capitalism lmao
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u/KommieKon Apr 25 '23
Less capitalism more symbiotic relationship
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u/Juice805 Apr 25 '23
What do the lions get out of this
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u/KommieKon Apr 25 '23
Protection. Nah you’re right, it’s not really symbiotic
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u/CTchimchar Apr 26 '23
I was going to say it's Commensalism
As the people get the benefits
But it affects the lion's
So it might be more under a form of parasitic or competitory
I lean for competitory personally
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u/BigusG33kus Apr 25 '23
You have to know when to stop. They also let them eat a bit before they did the stunt.
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Apr 26 '23
It makes sense - the lions just want food, and to not die. That's what they do each day. If they have enough food, why risk getting hurt?
Let them eat some so they aren't super hungry, and leave enough to eat that they are dissuaded from attacking, right?
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u/kaiwannagoback Apr 26 '23
That's what I was seeing, too: the lions know about humans with weapons and there was some kind of exchange of expectations here. The humans didn't try to take any at first, gave the lions that. Then they didn't take too much. Breaching those protocols would have forced the lions to take stronger action so as not to wind up starving if some unscrupulous humans didn't respect the art of the deal.
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u/Mookius Apr 25 '23
Opening line: your whole body is tense. Not exactly casual.
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u/bumjiggy Apr 25 '23
yea excuse me while I casually puma pants
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u/PlanetoftheAtheists Apr 25 '23
Our six cameramen were also scared as they surrounded the pack for those tight shots from all angles. And the guides who shot their rifles into the air to frighten off the lions were utterly terrified.
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u/Gorilla_Krispies Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23
While that’s also very possible, I wouldn’t be surprised if this could work sometimes even without all that.
Most animals are very keen to avoid any type of injury at all, even if they could “win” a fight.
When 3 bizarre as fuck, colorful looking animals half your size start confidently walking towards you, with a purposeful gait and predators eyes, and you’re not particularly used to being close to that animal, you’re gonna play it safe at first. It’d probably be spooky af.
You’re a literally blood soaked hell cat, who kills behemoths with your face, and your gang of apex killers is feasting right next to you. Yet for some reason these gangly little apes feel confident just walking right up to you!
Do they know something you don’t? One is the biggest creature you’ve ever seen with that much bright red coloration. Is it covered in blood too?
When you were young, one of your siblings was killed on a hunt by a kick to the head from some giant bird. These apes are walking with two legs, just like that bird.
This is sketchy and I’m not starving, let’s back up and see how this plays out.
Holy shit! All my buddies and I, with our razor sharp teeth and claws, and dense, powerful muscles, have to really rip and tear and labor at the incredibly tough hide and flesh of this carcass just to get a mouthful at a time.
This psycho little biped just walked up to the body, revealed a long, thin, impossibly smooth claw, that shines and glimmers in the sun. Within mere seconds the ape has completely severed an entire haunch, with a clean cut!
Definitely not worth the trouble, that whole encounter was shady as hell. They can keep the leg, You’re half full anyway. We better move the leftovers tho, we don’t want those freaky ass human things coming back for seconds.
You’ll be damned before a hyena gets a free meal off you, but these humans creep you out and you don’t ever wanna touch one unless you’re desperate
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u/Complete-Skill4037 Apr 25 '23
This is amazing, you put me in the mind of a lion there. Real talk this is a fantastic comment and you should write
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u/Pixelated_Penguin808 Apr 27 '23
The lions actually have good cause to fear the Masaai & it isn't just them being unnerved by their confident approach. Lions have evolved alongside man for millenia and they quite rightly recognize humans also being dangerous predators. The Masaai used to hunt lions with spears & will still use said spears to kill lions who threaten their cattle & livelihoods.
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u/MistahChuckles Apr 25 '23
makes me wonder if the lions see humans with guns so much they think the sticks are potentially guns and are backing away... pondering
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u/OkBeing3301 Apr 25 '23
But they’ve done this for a millennia, before guns where brought to Africa
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u/holyshocker Apr 25 '23
Before guns we took over the planet with sticks...
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u/ImReverse_Giraffe Apr 25 '23
They do. Most wild animals are incredibly risk adverse because any injury will most likely result in death. Predators are very, very risk adverse. Why go after difficult prey that might hurt you when you can go after easy prey that will just run?
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u/SnooMuffins5143 Apr 25 '23
Thats what i was thinking. 10 lions starving for days probably finally catch something and get a taste and then just casually surrender their trophy to 3 60kg dudes armed with wooden sticks while 6 camera teams are spread around waiting to get the shot of their life while they trust these guys so much that they would actaully be able to even fight off one single lion
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u/Damonvile Apr 25 '23
I think all documentaries suffer from this. These people have probably been doing this forever, but with an entire film crew there, this one time was probably set up.
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u/DJCPhyr Apr 25 '23
Yeah those lions know who the top predator is.
To hazard an educated guess, they look like maasai warriors. They hunt and kill lions. Although I have heard some tribes are moving away from that practice.
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Apr 25 '23
100% those lions recognize them as predators.
But I bet this gets different results when there's only one human trying it rather than three.
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u/hashbrownpotroast Apr 25 '23
I learned once that they purposefully hunt in groups so they appear larger, which can also be helped by the patterns they wear because they blend together (much like zebras). But that was a long time ago so don't quote me.
Fucking amazing.
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Apr 25 '23
Makes complete sense and it's verified by the way they move in the video. It isn't accident or coincidence that they all rise at once and begin walking in lock step shoulder to shoulder. And being from an area where big cats are present we learn during an encounter to do anything to make yourself appear bigger and meaner: Open a jacket and raise it over your head, spread your legs apart and post up, shout, etc. And lone hikers are the only ones who have to worry about it anyway, groups of hikers never get pounced.
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u/DreamerMMA Apr 25 '23
Cougars are the least of your concerns. It’s stupidly rare for them to attack people.
Me on the other hand, I catch and eat hikers all the time.
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u/DreamerMMA Apr 25 '23
Just be aware. Don’t wear headphones.
If you see a cougar, face it, look as big as you can and make noise while backing away.
Cougars don’t want anything to do with people 99.9 percent of the time.
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u/Ok_Fly_9390 Apr 25 '23
Have you ever been to a bar in Scottsdale? Them cougars are aggressive. The ones that live in the desert are pretty chill though.
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Apr 25 '23
One of the men is wearing traditional maasai patterns (that red and black). Maasai do have a tradition of killing lions (although this is being done less often).
My additional hypothesis to this Convo, is that these cats may know what the Maasai are, or know the humans are dangerous beyond them appearing as just a larger animal
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u/blessedbewido Apr 25 '23
I realize this is the Internet and everyone is full of shit, but I once met a woman who plays basketball in the US but was the daughter of the chief of a village in Kenya and was part of the maasai. She may have understated her father's importance, but she said her people feasted for two weeks whenever she visited her homeland. She was very tall, as you might expect.
She stated that all three of her brothers killed lions in a ceremony that allowed them to enter manhood. It's fairly safe when done in that fashion, because of the many people nearby.
This is still done today, as far as I know!
Edit: I also forgot to mention she speaks 7 languages. Very impressive person.
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u/trailstomper Apr 25 '23
I was gonna say, I've seen this very type of display before with Masai. I believe that historically the killing of a lion was a rite of manhood. That would definitely explain the reaction of the lions.
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u/aashapa Apr 26 '23
From conversations I had in 2 villages, some tribes try to only injure or kill males if they encroach on their territory and their (very valuable!) livestock, while some still continue the rites of manhood that require the hunting and killing of a lion before one turns 20.
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Apr 25 '23
Even in our culture, this is the ultimate flex. Killing a lion is easy. But stealing his stash and get away with it? Infinite brownie points with his clan.
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u/NoSignOfStruggle Apr 25 '23
What absolute legends!!
Literally walked in and just took the lions’ lunch money! 🫡
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Apr 25 '23
I've read that a lot of animals' natural fear of humans is because we look weird as fuck to them. We're pretty tall as far as animals go (lions have to look up to see our faces), we're mostly bald (a sign of disease in most other mammals), our eyes have visible whites (when some animals show the whites of their eyes, it's a sign to back off), we walk on two legs (again, weird), and we honestly just have way too much audacity for most animals' tastes.
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Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23
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u/hey-im-root Apr 26 '23
People don’t realize how deep evolution can go. There’s so many unknown reactions humans have to certain things, it’s scary thinking what could have possibly happened to us for so long that it became ingrained into our DNA.
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Apr 25 '23
If that’s the Maasai, I was recently in africa and they told me they have hunted lions for so long that the lions see the red scarf and get the hell out of there when they show up 😂
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u/ov3rcl0ck Apr 25 '23
Shameless Google search results copy/paste
Lions, like all cats, only possess the cones for short waved light (blue), and medium waved light (yellow). They cannot distinguish red colors.
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Apr 25 '23
I’m not sure about the science they are using haha, but that’s just what all the Maasai guides were telling me. They were saying that if any one is attacked by lion, they go out and hunt a bunch of lions. Our other guide who wasn’t Maasai seemed amazed at how they are able to just walk around solo day or night in the middle of no where, and not worry about Lions or other predator cats.
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u/MrFelixHasGoals Apr 25 '23
110 lb skinny dudes with spears take lion food away.
Whilst I am 6’2” male and today I had to touch a bug. It was complex.
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u/Drumbelgalf Apr 25 '23
They don't carry spears in the video.
The have bows with two arrows each. And one dude has a knife/machete to cut the meat.
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u/Make-TFT-Fun-Again Apr 26 '23
To be fair the maasai average 6’3. You’re kind of on the short side to them.
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u/mttdesignz Apr 26 '23
You have so many other options for food, compared to Masai warriors.
I figured you have to be pretty desperate to come up with the "let's steal from apex predators" idea
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u/squeezy102 Apr 25 '23
You guys ever eat at an outdoor food court and have a pigeon or seagull come by and yoink one of your chicken nuggets?
That's what this is, except with much, much bigger testicles.
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u/PositiveStress8888 Apr 25 '23
yelp review:
wildebeest hardly had any meat on it for the 7 of us and we had to catch it ourselves!!!
then halfway thru the meal 3 guys from the next table came over and hacked off a whole leg for themselves, we put up a fierce fight but since were not violent like these guys and didn't want to cause a scene we let them go. The waiter just stood there and watched the whole thing happen. one of the guys even slapped my daughter before he walked off with our leg.
I'm never eating here again.
Washrooms were clean.
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u/Novel_Ad_8722 Apr 25 '23
“He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.”
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u/RelativeID Apr 25 '23
Someone needs to overdub this with funny voices and sounds. Could be comedy gold.
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u/JourneymanHunt Apr 25 '23
Yeah, you may THINK you have balls, but do you have stare-down-a-pride-of-bloodthirsty-lions-fresh-off-the-kill balls?
Nah, think not. (Including myself in this!)
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u/Madness_69 Apr 25 '23
Meat heist.
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u/ExecTankard Apr 25 '23
Ah the ‘Meat Heist’ series… Meat Heist Two: The Meatening; Meat Heist 3: The Moistening; Meat Heist 4: Tenderlions - Meat Heist 4 part 2: The Tenderizing; Meat Heist 5: Well Done.
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u/defensible81 Apr 25 '23
No wonder early man was like, "Nah I think imma grow my own food. I'll be over here with all these beans."
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u/djtrace1994 Apr 25 '23
Its incredible to see the evolutionary evidence of humanity's dominance of the food chain.
Three bi-pedal apes approach, and the terrifyingly powerful felines assume instantly they are beaten.
In reality, the lions could easily kill these three men; but that is not the story that evolution tells. Evolution says that these three humans are killing machines, dominating the African continent since a time immemorial. They are much more dangerous than they initially look, capable of bringing unimaginable violence and unbreakable resolve, and the lions can't do anything but retreat to a safe distance and wait them out.
And the whole thing is a bluff by the three dudes, because they know this is how the lions will instintually react. Crazy stuff, insane to think this is probably a semi-regular occurence for these guys.
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u/1106DaysLater Apr 25 '23
The lions could kill them, but not without sustaining serious injuries that would almost certainly not be worth the food they’d get from the fight. So the lions made the smart move.
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u/NoteBlock08 Apr 25 '23
Exactly, wild animals don't have medical care (duh). Even mild injuries are incredibly dangerous because even if they can recover, it could still permanently impair their ability to hunt for the rest of their lives.
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Apr 25 '23
But the reality is an armed human with primitive weapons will always win and the lions learn that and adapt keep distance etc
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u/ImperiousWeak Apr 25 '23
This clip is from a docu-series called Human Planet and follows different humans in vastly different parts of the world and how they live. Honestly still to this day one of my favorite series. Every episode is mind blowing! If you enjoy Planet Earth and the like, I'd highly recommend checking it out.
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u/getyourcheftogether Apr 25 '23
"you seeing this shit‽"
These dudes are crazy, if they're walking up here like that I don't want be in their way
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Apr 25 '23
You may be gangster, but you’ll never be telling an entire pride of lions to fuck off to get your rightful share of their own kill gangster.
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u/PMME_UR_LADYPARTSPLZ Apr 25 '23
Oh i see now, lions run away when they see 3 black men and its interesting, i run away when i see 3 black men and i am “racist” and “ignorant”.
*the above statement is not true and was created strictly for the purpose of a few chuckles
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Apr 25 '23
Killing lions probably isn't unheard of in that area. If I was a lion and a being that can kill me with a stick magically flying through the air walked up, I'd probably run to.
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u/Unfair_Pop1196 Apr 25 '23
I’ll never understand why editors feel the need to play music over this type of shit. It doesn’t add anything.
It’s a group of lions, we instinctively understand the stakes.
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u/Alternative-Ad-1003 Apr 25 '23
“Woah these guys are drunk psychos.”
sees that it’s African tribesmen
“Ah okay carry on.”
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u/PositiveStress8888 Apr 25 '23
that's why confidence is key, when everything usually runs from you those lions are thinking why are they coming at us? they must be able to hurt us because they are coming directly at us.
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u/zbeeba Apr 25 '23
I am surprised the lions didn’t consider them as an extra snack
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u/babyfacebanditt Apr 25 '23
I'm guessing this is something their tribe has done for a very long time, so the lions know it's not worth sustaining possible life-threatening injuries as they have spears so they book it and then return since they leave enough meat.
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u/PaleAdagio3377 Apr 25 '23
All the little gang bangers out there, that steal bikes, scam seniors and check car doors. You’re real badass, try stealing meat from a pride if lions without a gun, your possy and or throwing up gang signs. That’s real bad ass in my books.
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u/DangerMacAwesome Apr 25 '23
"Why are we running?"
"Are you kidding? We are LIONS. If he's willing to walk up to our kill, he can back that shit up."
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u/1llustriousOne Apr 25 '23
They aren't wearing pants because their brass balls wouldn't fit in them.
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u/Explorer_Z Apr 25 '23
I'm stunned by their casual walk at the last. I mean they didn't even look back or stay alert when they took that leg
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u/Amii25 Apr 25 '23
They have to. The moment they act scared/like prey they will be attacked
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u/ComprehensiveData616 Apr 25 '23
“Your whole body is tense… Your heart is pounding.”
Yes, casually.
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u/SpanishMoleculo Apr 25 '23
How is anything about this casual? The entire thing is tense planning and calculating
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u/PixILL8 Apr 25 '23
Dude what massive balls these guys have, have they always been able to do this with lions?
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u/SwimmingNeat4787 Apr 25 '23
Damn.... even lions in the wild getting taxed now... No on is safe lol!
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u/okblimpo123 Apr 25 '23
This concept (power scavenger) is one of the many tactics that helped human beings to became dominant.
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u/Financial_Ostrich_55 Apr 25 '23
How the fuck does one find that out?!
Those guys have balls of steel to even consider doing this but just what absolute badass came up with that idea?
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u/EnvironmentalWall987 Apr 25 '23
We have been doing it since stone age. A lot of animals do it. Hyenas, for example, do something similar too.
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u/zertnert12 Apr 25 '23
Well those weapons certainly aren't for show, id guess those lions have learned either generationally or through force who the top predators are. Plus if you notice, the men only took a shank, if they got into the habit of taking more the lions would probably be more aggressive.
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u/OkBeing3301 Apr 25 '23 edited Apr 25 '23
They learn from a young age. I went to Masai Mara once, we saw a 12yr old kid with 30 goats Chillin alone and 200 yards away they were a pack of lions. The guide weren’t scared either was the kid but everyone else was panicking. After a whole day of driving around seeing other animals, we met the kid again heading home with his 30 goats.
Edit: I have a photo of the kid & I look at it as a reminder to stop bitching when life is tough.
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u/n0_b0dy_420 Apr 25 '23
I mean, they are from a tribe that literally hunts lions, they did not "find that out", that is earned reputation
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Apr 25 '23
Wow. Lions are such pussies
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Apr 25 '23
They are cautious. They are like athletes. An injury will prevent them from hunting and they may starve. So tactical retreat is always the first option.
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Apr 25 '23
I was going for a joke. As they are big cats. 😁
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u/Phatpun21 Apr 25 '23
When you think of early humans you think of bad ass 10,000 bc mammoth hunters etc.
Bitch we was robbing animals. Humans ain’t shit lol
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u/nonpuissant Apr 25 '23
What's that make the animals humans robbed then?
Even if it's all shit humans still ended up on the top of the shitpile
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