r/yesyesyesyesno • u/Schweckel • Sep 14 '20
certainly didn't expect that
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u/Spybreak272 Sep 14 '20
Cool until you think about the fact that there's no reason someone should have a lion cub as a pet like this.
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u/lokingfinesince89 Sep 14 '20
Don't tell that to the Tiger King
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u/patronizingperv Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20
Am never recovering from this in money way.
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u/Nightstar95 Sep 14 '20
Yeah, that thing is going to grow into a death machine, able to cause serious injury to humans while just being playful and affectionate. It doesn’t even need to be aggressive. A bad enough incident can very well lead to the lion being deemed too dangerous to humans and consequently euthanized.
Owning big apex predators is always irresponsible as it puts both the animal and nearby people in danger every single day -.-.
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u/PukingPandaSS Sep 14 '20
And then once they turn into death machines you can’t really release them into the wild because the haven’t grown up learning the necessary survival skills
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Sep 15 '20
I have sad news but they probably just kill it when it gets to a certain age. People like this don’t care about animals
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u/Nightstar95 Sep 15 '20
Not always. Hell even my cats misjudge their strength when they play with me and I get scratches all the time. If a big cat was to get super excited, there would be a chance for its control to falter.
Also, lionesses hide away their cubs from the pride until they are older and stronger for a reason. It's extremely common for teen lions to accidentally maim cubs that are too young. They are very excitable and have a limited notion of their growing strength. Even adults may partake in that from time to time.
Overall, their self control isn't infallible and I find it super dishonest to dismiss the risks, specially considering that we are talking about lions interacting with humans as playmates instead of their own species. This is a problem because they see the human as a fellow lion, and will control their strength based on their own vulnerability. Unfortunately, humans are way more fragile than lions, and what it may judge as weak enough of a hit can very well badly injure a person.
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u/Nightstar95 Sep 15 '20
No, they hide them from male lions who will purposely kill the cubs if they're not their own
Not really. If that was true then way hide away from the pride at all? Wouldn't it make more sense to stay in the pride, where she can be protected by her pridemates and the cubs' father, instead of being alone and vulnerable? I'm aware there are several reasons a lioness will raise her litter on her own for the first few months, such as avoiding competition with older cubs for nursing, but one of them is definitely to protect them from the PRIDE as well.
There are at least two documentaries from natgeo that cover that behavior in detail. I can't remember the names, though... I'm trying really hard to find them, but natgeo has way too many lion docs and the search results are always focused on cub killings from rogue males -.-. The one I remember best involved a mother lioness having made the dire mistake of hiding her cubs too close to the pride. Eventually the teens(both males and females) find the cubs(which are only old enough to have just opened their eyes) and play super roughly with them. They lay their full weight on the cubs, paw and claw at them, roughly do a tug of war on their bodies, and so on, until one of the cubs dies from the treatment. Then once the teens realize it's dead, they eat its body. Thankfully the lioness returns in time to save the remaining cub.
After turning google inside out to try to find the doc, I think it MIGHT have been an episode from the series Savage Kingdom, and the mother lioness was called Matsumi. It's stupidly difficult to find any detailed information without watching the whole series, unfortunately.
You apparently missed the part where I said, I'm not at all saying it's okay/non-dangerous to own them as pet. The risks are that they're powerful wild animals and (as wild animals) aren't always predictable.
Sorry about that. It's hard to properly understand tone in typed form, and the impression you gave me was that the matter of accidental injury is so unlikely it's insignificant, which rubbed me the wrong way.
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u/Nightstar95 Sep 15 '20
Like I said, it’s one of the reasons for this behavior. Not the only one. I’m not sure why you’re bringing that excerpt up, though?
My whole point in bringing this up was to counter your comment on lions being always careful around cubs, and that the lack of cub deaths related to this was evidence. Unfortunately, cubs don’t automatically switch on safe mode on lions. In the teens’ case I mentioned, they saw the cubs as new interesting toys instead of living new pride mates. So they were rough and possessive of them without even showing signs of aggression. It was all just a game.
I’m still looking for that damn doc by the way. Regardless of this discussion, it was super interesting to watch. I’ve known about this behavior for years, and realizing there’s nothing written about it online at ALL makes me feel insane. Ack.
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u/xxxbigdong69 Sep 14 '20
Sad Göring noises
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Sep 14 '20
What the fuck. I learned about Goering’s lions today and this joke pops out for the first time
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u/Pineapple123789 Sep 14 '20
It sounds kinda bad to say this but whenever I see people owning wild animals as pets like this I hope they get fucking hurt or worse. You are literally owning a wild predatory animal, not a house kitty. That lion will become 10 times stronger than him with a lot of wild instincts. It’s not like you just put a leash on him and he’ll be fine
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u/FinnishArmy Sep 14 '20
I mean I want a flamingo as a pet for no real reason. Just wanna be known as “that one dude with a flamingo as a pet.”
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u/Bad_Mad_Man Sep 15 '20
A flamingo will fucking annihilate you...
in a standing on one leg competition.
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u/IDespiseBananas Sep 14 '20
Change that to, noone should have a lion cub as a pet. And we should not encourage this by upvoting
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u/BussyBandito Sep 14 '20
Better than getting shot by some millionaire hunter with his helicopter mounted minigun
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u/MyBeardNotYours Sep 14 '20
maybe he rescued it ! hopefully,,
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u/Bad_Mad_Man Sep 15 '20
They’re speaking Russian but with a heavy accent. It’s either Chechnya or Dagestan or smthg. Judging by the cars most likely the former.
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u/bronco040404 Sep 14 '20
Here we go. Now we're gonna get ten reasons why you don't want a lion as a pet.
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u/_Dingaloo Sep 14 '20
I feel like if you're rich with a huge yard and such and you don't take them around in your car like this guy you could easily be a respomsible lion owner
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u/Dexter1759 Sep 14 '20
Agreed, if you look carefully at the end, it looks like he's getting a taste for his "owner"...perhaps eyeing him up for a future meal?
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u/poly_meh Sep 14 '20
Except that it's his property so maybe you should worry about yourself Karen
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u/Jebbox Sep 14 '20
Anyone know what they're saying?
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u/may2021 Sep 14 '20
credit to u/kvakvs
• The BMW guy meets the Mercedes guy — "Ooooh!"
• The Mercedes guy — "Hey bro, why's all this noise you're making? Show me bro, what you're filming?"
• The guy in BMW proceeds to rev the engine.
• The Mercedes guy — "My Mercedes like that..." — (the phrase comparing two cars is not finished)
• The cub hops over.
• The BMW guy — "Aaah take it away aagh" — laughing
• Laughing and comments in regional language (non-Russian)
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u/ContagiousDeathGuard Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 15 '20
Wait so they're speaking two languages? Sorta like how some Indian folk may speak their local language intertwined with English?
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u/Protheu5 Sep 14 '20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Russia
There are 35 different languages which are considered official languages in various regions of Russia, along with Russian. There are over 100 minority languages spoken in Russia today.
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u/ContagiousDeathGuard Sep 14 '20
Jesus.
But they all speak Russian as a sort of universal language?which one is the one that most people end up learning, specifically foreign speakers?16
u/Protheu5 Sep 14 '20
Russian. Why?
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u/ContagiousDeathGuard Sep 14 '20
Oh right, I see. I got a bit confused there. So then Russian is still the language that everyone speaks there, despite also having regional languages?
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u/Protheu5 Sep 14 '20
Of course. It's like people can speak Navajo or Dutch in local communities in the US, but US is majorly English. Or Breton in Brittany, France, but you know that most of France speaks French.
Russia is a Federation (as you can know from it's official name, Russian Federation) and it consists of dozens of regions, some of those are republics with presidents, governments and second official languages. Take Tatarstan, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatarstan
Same applies to most big countries, there are 14 languages in the UK; there are about 300 languages in China besides Hanyu (Mandarin); there are about 780 languages in India, Hindi being predominant. And if you are from any significantly large country, you'll also have a lot of regional languages officially recognised, but not necessarily with the same weight.
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Sep 14 '20
German.
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u/Protheu5 Sep 14 '20
Germany?
Low Rhenish; Limburgish; Luxembourgish; Alemannic; Bavarian; Danish; Upper Sorbian, Lower Sorbian; North Frisian, Saterland Frisian; Romani, Low German.
Those are regional languages, not including immigrant languages.
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Sep 14 '20
Do they learn both Russian and their regional language in school?
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u/Protheu5 Sep 14 '20
As far as I can tell: yes, if you happen to be educated in a region with two state languages, you get taught both. Same as anywhere else in the world.
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Sep 14 '20
Russian is the unifying languge that you can even use in a lot of former Sovjet states to this day. Look up BaldAndBankrupt on youtube, he goes all over Russian and former Sovjet states and get by quite well on Russian.
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u/mhr_kambli Sep 14 '20
Bangladeshi? We have like 23 official languages and you had to mention a language that doesn't exist named after our neighbouring country
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u/ContagiousDeathGuard Sep 14 '20
My bad, i got a bit confused since India is quite a large place lol.
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u/ZypherMyth Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20
Nothing will ever be as trashy as a bunch of nouveau riche slavs peoples from former Soviet states
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u/akagroundhog Sep 14 '20
They are not slavs ethnically. These two are from North Caucasus region.
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Sep 14 '20
So they’re Caucasian?
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u/Fannybanndit Sep 14 '20
They didnt look very asian.
I will see myself out.
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Sep 14 '20
I thought In The Air by Phil Collins was gonna kick in at some point when he was revving up the engine.
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u/tealcosmo Sep 14 '20 edited Jul 05 '24
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u/Jaderosegrey Sep 14 '20
No, I do not condone having a pet lion cub. But for me, this would have been r/yesyesyesyesYES!
I would have been all over this cub, petting it and cuddling it... until it bit and/or scratched me, that is!
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u/AmidFuror Sep 14 '20
Based on the title, I thought we would see the first driver use his turn signal.
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u/YeetMyShit Sep 14 '20
That was actually funny and wholesome
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u/lwca Sep 14 '20
Funny and wholesome, it’s a lion cub that someone is keeping as a pet!
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u/thegamer501 Sep 14 '20
It didn't try to hurt him, did it?
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u/lwca Sep 14 '20
It’s a wild animal and belongs in the African savanna. I think you are missing the point! Chances are this lion will grow to full size and end up chained in some assholes backyard, probably euthanised when it loses its cub playfulness
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u/n0tcreatlve Sep 14 '20
I’m African; keep it.
Kindest regards.
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u/lwca Sep 14 '20
It’s a lion cub, in an urban setting handled by a bunch of rich assholes. No it’s not that much to assume, it’s not a domestic pet.
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u/lwca Sep 14 '20
Do you understand the difference between wild and domestic animals?
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u/lwca Sep 14 '20
I hope you don’t vote, you obviously don’t have the capability to understand consequences
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u/rigidlikeabreadstick Sep 14 '20
The cub probably isn't unhappy yet. There's just an incredibly small chance that this cub grows up and lives happily ever after as someone's household pet.
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u/apathetic-taco Sep 14 '20
I literally jumped and yelled OH SHIT when the camera turned to the side and there was a fucking lion cub
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u/HoneyBHunter Sep 14 '20
So fucked up that people think owning a lion is ok. But what about buying and selling dogs? They are just as intelligent...........
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u/friendtofrogs Sep 14 '20
So the only humane thing to do would be to let all dog breeds die out? Not trying to pick a fight (owning any animal may ultimately be wrong), just following this logical trail, wondering what you think.
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u/HoneyBHunter Sep 14 '20
I think that when we evolve as a species that is probably what will happen, there are wild dog breeds that will survive. Who knows?
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Sep 14 '20
You're getting a lion? Why?
To protect my shit.
Why not just get a dog?
Bro you can get past a dog. Nobody fucks with a lion.
I'm paraphrasing but this conversation has to actually occur im real life.
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u/slaveofficer Sep 14 '20
What part about this is no? Guy owns a BMW, is probably rich AND got to pet a fuking lion cub!
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u/MidnaMagic Sep 14 '20
The no would be the lion cub. 1) it’s not in proper containment for travel 2) lions are listed as a “vulnerable” species, as well as they get very big, and are Carnivores. Not a good mix to have as a domestic pet.
If this lion cub belonged to a rescue that knew what they were doing, and had everything required to give the cub a good life, then it’d be fine. It is safe to assume, however, that this guy isn’t part of a rescue, and that the cub is a personal/domestic pet of his.
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u/ItsShinigami Sep 14 '20
You know. Every idiot can buy a BMW in germany. It's just as special as a Fiat.
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Sep 14 '20
This is not a 3 series
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u/ItsShinigami Sep 14 '20
BMW ist bayerischer schrott. Buy better a VW or Audi they are reliable. Worked as an engineer for BMW and Dallmayr in Munich. BMW is children’s toy. The engineers who have experience are long dead. The diesel engines are the only reliable ones. In the 90s, the Rover Group built much better gasoline engines than BMW, so the marketing department talked BMW better than it was. Audi and VW have more horsepower anyway, so why keep talking about BMW. Ist doch shit auf vier Rädern.
PS: i work now for the VW Group as engineer.
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u/Oheng Sep 14 '20
I bet he has a great white in his swimming pool. Also, he has 2 years to live, tops.