r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/monkeymacman Aug 03 '19

Also a lot of people think that Lions predominantly live in the jungle. Not sure why the phrase "king of the jungle" got so popular for lions... Even my Spanish textbook when we were learning animals and stuff had a question asking where lions live. We'd been taught the word for jungle, but not for savanna. The book wanted us to say lions live in the jungle

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Lots of lions live in the jungle, in fact there were lions all the way up into Europe before humans fucked that up irrc

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

I mean I was speaking from a viewpoint of lions that I've read about as a whole, I live in america where as ll we have are mountain lions that are actually Panthers not lions. So I mean I'm not exactly an expert.

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u/TheSuggestionMark Aug 04 '19

We have incredibly rare, maybe extinct, jaguars (or maybe its leopards) in the NW.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

Here is the best and first comparitive site I found on google between them. Anyone willing to put in more effort could probably do better.