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Friday, January 6, 2012

Animals Happy Friday! Here's a Video of a Lion Trying to Eat a Small Child

Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:06 PM

The best part is that the kid is completely oblivious to the fact that his face would be ripped to bloody shreds if not for that window:

(Thanks, Jackson!)

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I doubt most people (including myself) really know the full extent to how effective a predator big cats are.

While working at the WPZ, the jaguar expert showed me one the remnants of one of Gordo the jaguar's old toys: a large plastic ball, about 12 inches in diameter. Its surface was about an inch think, and made of polyethylene plastic, the same material we use to make plastic cutting boards. Gordo had not only scratched the hell out of it with his claws, but he'd actually punctured it through in several places with his teeth.

So that kid's skull would offer all the resistance to that cat that the skin of an apple offers to us, is what I'm saying. Maybe that's why I find this video so funny.

Posted by Knat on January 6, 2012 at 12:41 PM

as someone else pointed out elsewhere, this is why we are at the top of the food chain. because we can take a far more dangerous animal, put it behind some clear glass, and take our children up to its mouth and claws so they can safely check them out and have a laugh. these videos are amazing because people, not because we are stupid.

Posted by aardvark on January 6, 2012 at 12:43 PM

@2 - We also invented tranquilizer guns. Yay humans!

Posted by MLM on January 6, 2012 at 12:57 PM

Implying 3 year olds aren't absolute fucking idiots.

If there were a $5 bounty on kids etc...

Posted by Hurr We Humanz Nao! on January 6, 2012 at 1:08 PM

I saw this happen at the local zoo, where the animals are separated by bars, not glass. The zoo-keepers would wheel in janitor's buckets filled with meat which they would throw to the big cats while the humans watched. Before the 'show', parents would wheel their kids into the area in strollers that made the same exact sounds that the buckets of meat made. Then the parents would say "Look, baby! That lion is looking right at you," never realizing that the lion thought it was looking at its lunch.

Posted by Schweighsr on January 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM

@3 And hubris! Whoopie!

I look forward to Charles' analysis of why this big cat prefers the smallest (and presumably youngest) prey animal offered to it.

Posted by Cynic Romantic on January 6, 2012 at 1:38 PM

That kind of show never happens when I'm around. Almost every time I've been to a zoo all of the big cats are like sleeping behind a damn hill. The only thing I get to see is maybe a tail or an ear. What is a thick plastic window good for if the dang cats just sleep all dang day long? Might as well just brick it up and let me walk on by. End of silly rant.

Posted by Simone on January 6, 2012 at 1:48 PM

Lions do a lot of biting during play. Kinky, I know, but there you have it.

Posted by chris999 on January 6, 2012 at 1:52 PM

This video is awesome.

Posted by sikandro on January 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM

Jaysus! It reminds me of the Republican side of the Congressional Cafetaria many years ago when I worked in D.C.

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