godsdragongirl:muscleprincess:muscleprincess:(INDIGNANT HUFFING) NOT ALL M……ale lionst
godsdragongirl:muscleprincess:muscleprincess:(INDIGNANT HUFFING) NOT ALL M……ale lionsthe more i think about it, the weirder this comment seems. how does this man know that being a male lion is more stressful than being a female lion. has he lived as both a female and male lion before. is this man an AnimorphLet me break this down for you.1) Male lions aren’t necessarily as lazy as portrayed. They DO protect the pride (but so do females), they DO occasionally hunt (but females hunt more than males—mostly because males have MANES, and in the plains of Africa or the edges of the dunes, manes get you SPOTTED by prey long before they’re close enough to grab it. It has NOTHING to do with conserving energy— males WILL hunt if given the proper terrain that can hide them).2) There have been COUNTLESS female prides that do well WITHOUT males (their male(s) have died or been run off), and instead have a ‘queen’ who leads the other females. My favorite is the story of Silvereye (The Last Lion, narrated by Jeremy Irons), who was badass and blind in one eye and ran every male out of her patch. 3) Females don’t just use males for protection, they use them for stud services. Basic biology, yo. They want to make the pride stronger, so they need a male to mate with and produce cubs. All in all, it’s different roles, different strategies for survival on both male and females part. 4) Also, many male lions abandon their prides if they are ‘outnumbered’ by incoming males. There are quite a few who stand their ground and are killed by opposing forces, but sometimes the lion values his life over his pride. Roaming males can be 1-4 members strong, and if they encroach on a prides’ land that has only 1 male, he may just run instead of defend his turf. It happens.5) Females hunt every day and still have energy to patrol and defend their territory, not the mention manage their young. If new male lions take over, female lions lose their cubs (new males kill cubs to wipe out old males genetics), and they will try to defend their cubs to the best of their ability. 6) Male lions BULLY their way into fresh kills because they are bigger, and have a mane that protects vital areas while fighting (back of neck, throat, head, chest). Females do NOT have a mane, so they are more exposed, and as hunters, cannot risk injury. So they often surrender prey to males.7) It is NOT a dominance issue. The ‘dominance’ eye is skewed by years of sexism, and hundreds of years of male scientists deciding that the MALE ‘must’ be ‘alpha.’ In reality, there is BALANCE of survival in the natural world. It’s called a mutually beneficial relationship. Scientists are ‘going back’ and ‘restudying’ many animals and finding that ‘alphas’ are nonexistent. Huh! 8) If we get into stat numbers, more animals are matriarchal than patriarchal, so let’s not go there (elephants, hyenas, wild dogs, countless apes and monkeys—female birds of prey are almost ALWAYS bigger than males) So no, it is not ‘more stressful being a male lion than a female lion’. As a lion, your goal is to survive and produce cubs, and to take down prey day by day. They both have different roles due to sexual dimorphism (the different physical traits expressed by mane or no mane), and are badass in their own right. -- source link
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