[Sabertooth]

Here's another pic:

Yet another sign of the Apocalypse.

Lions like this give large predatory cats a bad name.

[Sabertooth]

(((ping))))

[dighton]

Now this is an astonishing story.

[.30Carbine]

I know a Tiger very much like the big cat in this story.

Yes, both big cats are "signs of the times." ( :

Thanks so much for posting this story. I hope we get updates.

[Howie]

I have a 5 yr. old female Doberman that has never had pups but hasn't been spayed. Once a year she goes into a "mother mode", the vet says it is a "false pregnancy". He says it is a hormonal thing. She will get milk in her teats, they droop like a new mother, she will become very anxious, will eventually round up a bunch of her plastic toys and pile them up and groom, and guard them for a month or more.

If a stranger or my wife gets close to them she threatens them, growls, shows fangs, etc.), she allows me to pick them up but is very uncomfortable when I do.

She seems very frustrated because they refuse to nurse. If my wife tries to hide them from her she sniffs them out and piles them up again. There is no doubt she thinks they are puppies.

Maybe lions have this condition, also? Regards, Howie

[dighton]

[Paul Leyhausen] once had a wild cat named Tilly, whose diet included live rats. One of them managed to escape being caught by hiding under the cat's sleeping box. From there it made forays into the cage, nipping at Tilly's heels in a most unsettling manner. (Rats aren't supposed to be aggressors.) Finally, Tilly decided it was a "pet" rat and not a "food" rat, and gave it the run of the cage. She went about her daily business of killing food rats without ever mistaking her pet rat for one of them. In fact, the two of them came in time to eat fresh-killed rats together.

Tilly never struck at or bit her pet rat, even when it snatched food away from her, and eventually it moved from under her sleeping box into her sleeping box. Tilly slept holding it to her breast with her fore paws. This idyllic comradeship lasted four months, at the end of which Leyhausen took the rat away from her. Three months later, he returned it to her cage. Tilly showed no sign of recognition, and started after it. It had turned into a "food" rat. The rat, too big now to hide under the cat's sleeping box, jumped into its one-time refuge. But the appeal to auld lang syne was fruitless: Tilly leaped into the box and killed and ate her former friend.

-- Muriel Beadle, The Cat.

[mercy]

Lion Shows Unusual Intelligence and Takes Up Practice of Animal Husbandry ... Would be my headline. She's just waiting for her meal to put on a little weight.

[Fred Mertz]

I hope the lioness doesn't get too hungry one day.

[Rebelbase]

Cats always like to play with live food before eating it. This one is just enjoying the game longer than most.

[denydenydeny]

I think it was Woody Allen who said that the lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Cats and dogs, living in sin. The lion turns her back on the laws of nature that feed her. Ya think this lion's name is David Brock, Jim Jeffords, or Teresa Heinz?

[MaeWest]

What a couple of sweeties. Hope it lasts.

[Jerry_M]

Nah, this lion is just "fattening up" the oryx for better eating.

[MeekOneGOP]

Lion and Lamb lie down together in Kenya!

Excerpt:

A lioness has struck up friendship with an Oryx calf, escorting and protecting it around a Kenyan wildlife reserve, in a spectacle which has puzzled wildlife experts.

The full grown lioness has been roaming Samburu game reserve in the company of a Beisa Oryx calf, which it would ordinarily have killed for a meal.

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.

The lioness has been protecting the calf from other predators and at times walks watchfully behind it as it would with its own cubs.

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I think we humans could (should) learn a lesson from this?
Thanks for post this article, Sabertooth!
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[rintense]

AWWW! What a great story! Just goes to prove that the maternal instinct is much stronger than that to kill. Unless of course your name is Andrea Yates. Sorry, low blow.

It is not unheard of for mother cats to adopt abandoned baby squirrels and raccoons. Maybe the lioness just lost her cub and needed to fill her still dominant maternal instincts.

[RonDog]

"Surprise in the Kenyan wild as lioness adopts oryx"

from
Daily NATION - on the web

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."
(KJV) Isa 11:6
(from www.GodsPromises.org)

Thanks for the flags, Sabertooth and MeeknMing!

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[Ditter]

Wasn't the lion & the lamb supposed to lay down together AFTER the Apocalypse? Biblical scholars where are you?

[b4its2late]

That's one lucky Oryx.

[Snow Bunny]

HI Saber my friend. This is a wonderful story. Thank you so much. I am going to ping my friends to see this.

[Kevin Curry]

It is also unusual for a lioness to be living apart from a pride. Perhaps the lioness gew up orphaned and alone, never learned appropriate pride behavior, but her instincts to associate with other lionesses have caused her to interact with the oryx as if it were another lioness (roughly same size and color). The oryx, on the other hand, has simply latched onto the lioness as a consequence of post-birth imprinting.

Similarly, I've heard it said that dogs relate socially to humans so well because dogs consider their human owners strange-looking and smelling dogs. It is pack behavior.

[Landru]

"Lions like this give large predatory cats a bad name."

Don't be absurd.
This cat's one of the smartest creatures I've ever heard of.
Treating this thing as-if it were a Savings Bond.

...just waitin' for the thing to finally mature before cashing-in.