Lion and Lamb lie down together in Kenya! (my title)

DailyNation on the Web ^ | January 7, 2002 | MUGUMO MUNENE

[B4Ranch]

LOL

[blackie]

Thanks for ping Snow Bunny, great story !@!

[Mudboy Slim]

"I think we humans could (should) learn a lesson from this..."

And what lesson would that be, my FRiend?

FReegards...MUD

[Bigg Red]

This is an amazing story. (Unfortunately, I couldn't see the pix.) Thanks for the flag, girlfriend.

[My back yard]

The lioness does most of the hunting, not all of it. And there is a very good reason for that given the environment in which this survival behavior was developed. The 'King' is the protector, and a very important asset to overall safety and well-being as such. Neither one of those is more crucial to the den's survival than the other.

[Billie]

Tourists and game workers have watched in disbelief as the lioness and the frail brown baby oryx walk side by side and lie down to rest – with all the intimacy of a mother and calf – at the foot of Koitogor hills, near the Serena Samburu.

Beautiful story and pictures, Sabertooth. I'm just now getting here. I would add my ping list, but I think by now, probably most anyone on it has been pinged by Bunny - we have a lot of the same Canteen names on our flag lists. :^)

[philman_36]

You mentioned the second diaspora and I mentioned a way in which it could be brought about. Many people of Jewish descent are outrightly known while others have only surnames to indicate a possible Jewish ancestry. Would a third generation grandparent with the name Jacobs qualify one as "Jewish"? DNA testing could find out with some certainty.
With the cross marriage of many of known Jewish ancestry there is a large portion of the population that has only partial Jewish ancestry, "half-breeds" if you will. Many simply have no idea if their ancestry is "Jewish" or not. I would imagine that a large number of families never mentioned it simply in a desire to "fit in".
My reply was a somewhat facetious attempt to explain how a second, more thorough and complete, diaspora could be accomplished...DNA sampling. What would cause it to occur is a different subject.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

White tiger on a snowy day in my crosshairs. nice :)

[swampfox98]

Thanks for the ping. The lion and the lamb, indeed. Gives me goosebumps.

[jjbrouwer]

Saber: I haven't checked how this thread ended (don't think it is going to be a happy ending) but I will wish the lamb all the luck in the world. I think he may need it.

[bwteim]

Thanks for post and your ping, Sabertooth.

[Orual]

The lioness does most of the hunting, not all of it.

The lion has been seen to go after prey, but only after it has been wounded by another animal, usually the lioness. The term "lion's share" is not without a basis in fact. The male get the first and biggest share, then the cubs and the lioness get whatever is left over.

[fish hawk]

post#8 Howie, for gods sake take your dog to a CAT HOUSE!!!

[dagny taggert]

No, not happy at all, but not by the "mama" lion. update

[jjbrouwer]

These sort of sad stories really eat me up.

[Barak]

Would a third generation grandparent with the name Jacobs qualify one as "Jewish"? DNA testing could find out with some certainty.

I'm not sure it would be particularly relevant. The only Jewish people who are important are those who self-identify as Jews and who participate in and perpetuate Jewish culture. Without those people, Judaism would cease to exist, even if lawyers named Sidney Finkelstein with curly hair, bald spots, and big noses, who had no knowledge of Judaism, remained.

And religious and cultural Jews are easy to pick out. I don't think any DNA testing will be needed.

No--that doesn't scare me. You know what scares me?

It's fairly obvious that the United States as a nation has fallen very far from God: much farther, in some cases, than other nations which God has been recorded as judging very harshly. Why has God's judgment been withheld in our case? Well, I don't pretend to know the mind of God, but he did promise to bless those who bless Israel--and, of course, to curse those who curse her. The US is right now the best friend Israel or the Jewish people have ever had. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

However, probably in large part because of that, the US is now the only remaining major concentration of Jews outside Israel. Prophecy foretells that the Jewish people as a whole will return to Ha-Aretz, or the Land. (Not necessarily every single last one of them, but the vast majority.) That's got to mean there will be a large Jewish exodus from the US to Israel at some point in the future.

Why would that be, do you think? Because life in Israel, in a tiny little country with the weapons of the entire Arab world trained on it, will somehow become more attractive than life in the US currently is? That'd be nice, but somehow I don't think so.

Somehow I think what's going to chase the Jews out of the US is widespread, rampant anti-Semitism. It's much more realistic to think that the US will at some point in the future go from being a nation that blesses Israel to a nation that curses Israel.

And that's what scares me.

[Equality 7-2521]

A woman who can quote Fletch? Wow!

"Can I borrow your towel? My car just hit a water buffalo."

Actually, maybe that would make a good note for that "pick-up lines" thread running concurrently.

[philman_36]

Somehow I think what's going to chase the Jews out of the US is widespread, rampant anti-Semitism.
Pretty much what I was getting at. "Just to be sure they're all gone"...or similarly "Find out who they all are to get rid of 'em and make sure they're all gone".
A "Don't want any taint left" mentality. An "undersirables" mindset. "Ship 'em back to Israel!"
Watching and waiting, expecting the unimaginable.

[Sungirl]

What a great story!

I'll bet it has something to do with the way the lamb smells.
I don't want to hear if this story has a violent ending.

[MeekOneGOP]

And what lesson would that be, my FRiend?

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Well, how about getting along and being human (or being human-like at least) in general? As opposed to looking for and finding fault? (I'm not real good about expressing stuff like this - does this make any sense to ya?). I think it was kinda neat the rangers didn't interfere and bust it up. . .

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"The lioness became fond of the calf, maybe because it had lost the company of its pride and was feeling lonely. What is baffling is why the relationship has lasted so long," said Mr Kapeen.

"We don't know what will happen when the oryx grows horns, if they will still stay together."

Samburu County Council rangers have ruled out separating the two, preferring to let nature take its course. Yesterday, a grown oryx watched apprehensively from a distance as the lioness and the baby oryx walked together.

The spectacle has attracted a growing stream of nature lovers, tourists and Samburu villagers.