[Kabal]

(08-11-2013 08:17 AM)puckman Wrote:  

I think it started with good intentions but the typical media marketing of it turned it into a joke complete with totally made up mockumentories. Discovery is like any other network and not creating these shows for goodwill but for profit..

Unlike hapless male humans, male lions have zero tolerance for the spawn of other males, so they got that going for them.

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Similar behavior is also seen in male lions, among other species, who also kill young cubs, thereby enabling them to impregnate the females. Unlike langurs, male lions live in small groups, which cooperate to take control of a pride from an existing group.[6] They will attempt to kill any cubs that are roughly nine months old or younger, though as in other species, the female will attempt to defend her cubs viciously. Males have, on average, only a two-year window in which to pass on their genes, and lionesses only give birth once every two years, so the selective pressure on them to conform to this behavior is strong. In fact it is estimated that a quarter of cubs dying in the first year of life are victims of infanticide.