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Lion really wants to eat that baby (Video)

June 14, 2011 | In: Animals, Creepy, Funny, Kids, Video

Zip

YOU WERE FIRST YOU FOOL, and you threw it all away to be seventh…some people just don't know what they have, until they throw it all away.
raf

***Shatters Glass*** – Awkwwwwwurd.

http://twitter.com/YWordArmy @YWordArmy

Unless you are trying to get rid of a baby…

iloveQuatchi

I really want to eat that baby too. But i can't get through this damn screen.

Resident_Saint

While this is all kinds of funny for us, i find this border line bad parenting for some reason.

http://www.facebook.com/a.d.lahey Andrew Lahey

Mostly just an overly amused father. The mom tried to pull the baby out in the beginning…
Wilson

Not sure how this is even close to the "border"… The baby is having fun and the lion is behind 5 inches of glass. I think we're good for now. Once the lion grows a horn and starts ramming the glass, then we and that baby are fucked.

Resident_Saint

I knew it wouldn't be a popular opinion here. Using my kid as "bait" to get a funny photo/video isn't something i would do. Just saying.

thechevron

bait? they were hardly hanging it over the railings on a piece of string.
Nothing bad parenting about it.
ThatGuy

let me get you a medal…
Rukus

That's why zoo's build viewing decks like that one. So, visitors can hopefully obtain interactions like that one. Big cats being, well, big cats. It reinforces the concept that, even in captivity, these are top level carnivores. I'd have to say it was a highly successful educational encounter.

ThatGuy

I believe you are thinking of "Scar" from Disney's "The Lion King". Scarface is actually a completely different character from a film largely unrelated to lions.

G Monie

Haha, touche! I was at least on the right track, I knew it didnt sound quite right…

Foley

Although now I can't get the image of Scar burying his head in a mound of coke out of my head.

mozomoto@gmail.com

baby and the beast!
HSoup

It's really the zoo's fault. The feed the lions a few babies, they're going to want to keep eating babies. Sweet, delicious babies.

HUH?

hey! what about terence trent d'arby, the musical genius from the 1980's, he was cool, wasnt he?

V4Vendetta14

Ha Ha…I’m bigger than you and higher up the food chain. Get in my belly.

anonnnnn

would of made for a more violent video glass covered baby gets eaten whole by lion caught on tape.

dude 1

this is pure cruelity!

that poor poor thing..
all he wanted was to have some delicious baby meat
GIJane88

That, or it just wanted to play with the baby, which would be just as bad if allowed to happen
Fat Bastard

I ATE A BABY!
Blake

Obviously you guys haven't spent as much time as Sean Connery around lions, but she definitely wasn't trying to eat it. In her mind it was a cub and it was stuck on the other side of the invisible force field. Had she been trying to eat it, she would have been stalking and pouncing, not trying to claw through and pick it up. Also, captive lions are well fed.

http://www.facebook.com/christopher.neufeldt Christopher Neufeldt

That's what I thought too. That in no way was hostile behavior.
HUH?

yes, your way is much more entertaining. thanks.
Ken

I agree that it didn't look like hunting behavior. I gather the lioness wanted to pick the baby up. However, had they actually been together, that probably would have ended in tragedy. Once the lion was around the baby, the smerll of the baby, it's movements and if there were the smell or taste of blood from any scratches the baby might have gotten then lion's prey drive could easily have been turned on.

crazycyberbully

Someday I will travel the world on the back of a lion and my lion will wear a bumper sticker that says "Powered by Babies".

http://www.facebook.com/christopher.neufeldt Christopher Neufeldt

What's the carbon footprint? Is it GREEN?!

http://www.facebook.com/Juan.Guillermo.Chaves.F Juan Guillermo Chaves F

the big kitty wants to play
Resident_Saint

"You're is the contraction of "you are" and is often followed by the present participle (verb form ending in -ing)."

Try reading that again.

ilovethechive

If they hadnt doused that baby in meat cologne none of this would have happened
GIJane88

Animals play with things all the time by putting them in their mouths, it doesn't always mean they're hungry and want to swallow it whole