[telstar12.5]

say What?

[SeekAndFind]

However, it won't be so easy for rival Lions to take over Cecil's pride...

Cecil The Lion’s Brother Is Protecting His Cubs

[dainbramaged]

Grizzly bears do the same thing. Lions are not endangered and kill well over a thousand Africans each year. Poor Cecil.

[GraceG]

Law of the Jungle....

Or any progressive hell hole created in the inner city....

At the local "Reproductive Health" Clinic...

[Vroomfondel]

Cecil the Lion's death has probably already resulted in all of his cubs being killed by rival Lion empowerment of oppressed minority cubs

fixt

[BigEdLB]

Since Cecil was killed on 1 July already, Rodrigues says that the chances are good that this terrible fate has already befallen the cubs, but that there was nothing any conservation organisation could do, as letting nature run its course was the most humane option.

BOZO of the highest order.

[jwalsh07]

Cecil, of course, never practiced infanticide because he is, was, a charter member of Planned Parenthood.

[Do the math]

This is natures way to guarantee more genetic diversity. When an alpha male lives too long, there is more inbreeding leading to weaker offspring. The new alpha males will kill the cubs in order to mate with the females as quickly as possible. This even occurs with feral cats in the wild. The new alpha male instinctively knows that the females will not go into heat if they have cubs, so he kills the cubs and problem solved. Its a jungle out there.

[WayneS]

“Cecil the Lion Murdered, Lionesses and Cubs Hit Hardest”

[Jan_Sobieski]

Lion meat is food. The inedible parts of the lion are trophies. When lions are not food, they are roadkill, or die cruel and violent deaths by another pride just like the zebras they consume. Once everyone knows that, they can understand this...

[TexasCajun]

I don't understand all the sympathy for Cecil from the left.

After-all he was the ultimate Alpha Male.

[mulligan]

So what and who cares?

[trisham]

I hope not.

[Not A Snowbird]

No, Jericho is protecting the cubs and the lionesses. I don’t know how long he can do that by himself, Cecil was quite prolific!

[Gamecock]

It’s called nature.

The lionesses won’t ovulate until the cubs are dead. The new cub-daddy want progeny of his own.

[inpajamas]

I blame twitter and the news media for all the coverage. How else would Cecil’s rivals have found out?

[driftdiver]

This is what lions do in the wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4fC3pcyIbI

Almost at the end they bite the losing lions gonads off. Now theres a statement.

[dfwgator]

Hakuna Matata!

[Huntress]

Ping! Plenty of opportunities to DRINK! on this thread already.

[a fool in paradise]

I guess the rival lion didn’t get the socialist justice warrior networking meme about Cecil.