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Cecil the lion's cub killed by rival male
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 8/9/2015 | unknown

Posted on 08/10/2015 9:15:25 AM PDT by rktman

One of Cecil the lion's cubs has reportedly been killed by a rival male who was trying to mate with his mother.

Cecil, a 13-year-old lion who was beloved by visitors and park rangers at his home in Zimbabwe, was killed last month by an American dentist on a hunting trip.

The death of one of Cecil's eight cubs has raised fears for his remaining offspring, which could also be targeted by the large predatory male lion.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; cecilthelion; lionviolence; minnesota; wildlife; zimbabwe
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Dateline 'zimbobaway'. Cecil Jr. was killed when a rival gang member tried to mount his mom. The beloved cub was one of Cecil's 8 offspring. He will be missed by those cheerful folks in the surrounding villages where the kids used to play catch with him on a daily basis. Or not. Rule of lions-----if you catch it, you eat it.
1 posted on 08/10/2015 9:15:26 AM PDT by rktman
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Should we send hunters to kill the rival male for cruelly assassinating Cecil’s child? /s


2 posted on 08/10/2015 9:18:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (qu)
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To: rktman

An aspiring wrapper.....................


3 posted on 08/10/2015 9:18:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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#donttellthechildren
4 posted on 08/10/2015 9:21:13 AM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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Why don’t we give this one a name too? Humanize it and get attached to it like Cecil the Lion? Let’s call him “Buddy the Lion”. So cute, adorable Buddy the Lion killed Cecil the Lion’s cub and then mated with Cecil’s former mate. Why don’t we go to the next step and say that Buddy “married” Cecil’s former “wife.” Aww. Isn’t that adorable!!!

Kidding aside, the way the press has tried to humanize this Cecil the Lion is ridiculous. Its a wild animal that would have killed some other lion’s cub if he had the chance. It’s an ANIMAL.


5 posted on 08/10/2015 9:22:23 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To kill or not to kill the rival male lion. Sometimes liberals are presented with these tough decisions. It’s a lose-lose situation.

Oh, no! I’ve got it! It was all Bush’s fault!


6 posted on 08/10/2015 9:25:55 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Momma’s new boyfriend is always a danger to the existing younguns. it’s a longstanding African tradition.


7 posted on 08/10/2015 9:26:46 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Henry Bowman where are you?)
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8 posted on 08/10/2015 9:26:58 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Cicero

Who cares? Lions do this all the time. They are LIONS. Lions don’t have “names”. They’d just as soon kill you as look at you. The people in zimbabwe think we are idiots.


9 posted on 08/10/2015 9:28:23 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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The beloved cub.....

What's this beloved thing?...What they mean is......This little money maker....

10 posted on 08/10/2015 9:33:21 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Hakuna Matata.


11 posted on 08/10/2015 9:34:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Until Cecil was killed, the lions and all of the other animals in Africa lived in perfect peace and harmony with one another. Now, with the death of Cecil, the entire continent is descending into chaos.


12 posted on 08/10/2015 9:34:32 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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Should we send hunters to kill the rival male for cruelly assassinating Cecil’s child? /s

My vote is "yes!" The old order's time is past.

Why should nature prevail?

The remaining 7 cubs deserve a chance to live.

After all, who knows better how to micromanage all of nature than arrogant, ignorant really stupid, really young, or really old, or really stoned people, who mean well?

13 posted on 08/10/2015 9:35:07 AM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: rktman

Sounds like Detroit.


14 posted on 08/10/2015 9:38:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

And it is criminal to humanize and domesticate a lion. Who are the people playing with the lion? They are making the lion feel downright welcome in the village. Bad zimbobwe juju.


15 posted on 08/10/2015 9:40:40 AM PDT by healy61
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Cecil was named after Cecil Rhodes. Why not name the new cub-daddy after a famous mountaineer, like Edmund Hillary?


16 posted on 08/10/2015 9:41:46 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists: "There is no God and I hate Him!")
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To: rktman

It’s the Circle of Life.


17 posted on 08/10/2015 9:46:27 AM PDT by steve8714 (I love Geico Rick.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Does anyone out there work for G.E.? If you do send this to R&D...program those 3D sonogram machines to make unborn babies to look like lion cubs. Maybe then Planned Parenthood would then be look at like the soulless murders they are.


18 posted on 08/10/2015 9:49:16 AM PDT by OldBullrider (if yur hurt, rub some dirt on it, and get back to work)
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Booloo ungawa.


19 posted on 08/10/2015 10:00:44 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: steve8714

But not like the song in the movie right?


20 posted on 08/10/2015 10:01:37 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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