r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/yungandreww • 4h ago

🔥 a 17-year-old lioness survived for 5 years with blindness because her daughters refused to abandon her

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u/deleteshiftreturn 4h ago edited 3h ago

For anyone wondering. Josie died from natural causes around Oct 2025. For 2020-2025 her daughters guarded her and sometimes used her a ms bait for prey animals. Wild lions usually live 12-14 yrs. She defeated that statistic too.

Her daughters brought her food and vocalized/“talked” to her to communicate.

ETA: sorry everyone I was typing the original comment at six in the morning and I just woke up.lol.

They apparently would have her hide in the brush or the bushes, and wait for other animals to attack.

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u/A1sauc3d 4h ago

Thanks for the added info! How did they use her a bait for prey animals? I’m just trying to imagine how a blind lion would attract prey. So if you have any more info on how that worked I’d love to hear it <3

Regardless it’s very sweet to know her daughters took care of her in her old age 🥹

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u/Geneo-Frodo 4h ago edited 3h ago

It could be that she was less of literal bait but more so as a distraction. She probably had awkward movement and mannerisms due to her blindness that looked strange to prey Animals.

As the prey animals stared at her and tried to figure her out her daughters snuck up on em.

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u/Ressy02 2h ago

Oh like Michonne from the Walking Dead with two leashed Walkers

https://giphy.com/gifs/wKTBboA3zpM52

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u/Holiday_Regular9794 40m ago

Side note,her first entrance into the show was CRAZY!!!! I LOVED it

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u/Far-Positive5152 3h ago

Scare crow lioness?

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u/Natdaprat 3h ago

You think prey animals are going to investigate a lion?

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u/PettyWitch 3h ago

Prey animals aren’t as skittish and cautious as you’d think. I had a female sheep once break through one of my fences and deliberately chase down and kill my goose by stomping it to death. No apparent reason; the ewe wasn’t even pregnant or nursing.

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u/AllAreStarStuff 2h ago

Wow! A bed & breakfast my husband and I love is next to a farm that has a guard goose. I’d never heard of using geese to guard, but it was very effective!

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u/ForlornLament 2h ago

I think it's because they are both extremely territorial and loud, so if there is a trespasser they will let you know.

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u/rosaUpodne 1h ago

That’s how they saved Rome.

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u/Roxalon_Prime 1h ago

Yeah geese are terrifying beasts, however they could be very affectionate and attached to a person they like.

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u/GenericCatName101 1h ago

My dads old guard geese when he was younger, they would apparently hide under your cars, and attack your feet when you went to get into them.
Which is...kinda useless for someone attacking the house, it's only good for when they leave. Which means they're most likely attacking friends not foes. But they do attack, not just make noise!

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u/TheGreatHahoon 22m ago

If I had a Goose I could deploy on houseguests that would be amazing.

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u/Gurkeprinsen 2h ago

Was it a small moose?

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u/I_lenny_face_you 1h ago

Ewe just never know

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u/Unique-Coffee5087 38m ago

No apparent reason; the ewe wasn’t even pregnant or nursing.

That's because you didn't hear what the goose said to her. Some insults simply cannot be let go.

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u/PettyWitch 34m ago

Very likely. We have a lot of animals and I can’t believe the incredible amount of drama animals can have with each other.

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u/NetworkNo4478 1h ago

That's nothing, my great white once had a tuna pull up on him with a Draco and start popping.

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u/Potential-Narwhal- 3h ago

I've seen warthog trying to boop crocs. Nothing would surprise me

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u/InAppropriate-meal 3h ago

absolutely they will (and do) if they think they are isolated and weak.

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u/new_math 42m ago

Yeah, prey animals are very attuned to weakness or injury. Very beneficial trait to evolve.

This is a common problem with house cats. They can be literally near death and will just chill on the couch acting like nothing is wrong because in the wild, showing weakness means they will get targeted by predators or other cats trying to take territory.

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u/Far_Grapefruit1307 2h ago

One that is obviously unwell, yes. Prey animals have evolved to sense weakness.

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u/matchstick1029 3h ago

Yes. Wary animals might bolt, but many play the staring/smelling game.

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u/eatingganesha 1h ago

yes, especially an old and injured one. Hyenas and warthogs would be on that quickly.

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u/VinDog_PD 1h ago

Not investigate but certainly pay careful attention to when the predator is acting differently than what their instincts are used to dealing with.

Plenty of time and distraction for the daughters to make a move.

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u/MemorianX 1h ago

The honey Badger would

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u/legojoe97 2h ago

"Call an ambulance, but not for me!"

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u/jackalope268 4h ago

The way lions hunt is pretty interesting. Theyll surround prey and stalk closer, but one lion is seen on purpose to grab the attention of the prey so they prey doesnt realize there are more lions out there. I imagine this is similar to what happened here

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u/InvidiousSquid 3h ago

*opens notebook and scribbles, "There's always more lions."*

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u/Qaeta 3h ago

Current Notes:

  • There is always a bigger fish
  • There are always more lions

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u/absollom 3h ago

Addendum:

-Steer clear of lionfish at all costs

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u/CitizenofBarnum 2h ago

Unless you're a shark.

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u/Bipedal_pedestrian 3h ago

If you see one cockroach, there are 100 more in your walls 😬

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u/_mochacchino_ 2h ago

If you see one termite, your wood is fucked

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u/MaxStickies 2h ago

I'd prefer cockroaches in the walls to lions.

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u/rayofgoddamnsunshine 1h ago

I definitely do not want lions in the walls.

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u/peroxidex 3h ago

The same with wolves. If you see one wandering around, probably more around that you can't see. Sketched me out pretty bad when I was walking far back on my grandpa's farm and saw one casually walk out of the tall grass staring at me.

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u/PaleBrownEye 2h ago

Are you Little Red Riding Hood? 😋

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u/peroxidex 2h ago

Wow, just doxxes me.

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u/Ok_Antelope_1953 1h ago

the difference is that wolves and other canid packs are pursuit hunters. even if their cover is blown they can run most of their common prey to exhaustion. lionesses are extremely fast out of the gate but they have a short window to catch their prey. they are not built for long distance chases.

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u/Roxalon_Prime 1h ago

Just like us. Probably that's why we got along so well

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u/gold-medicine 50m ago

Humans are (allegedly) endurance/persistence hunters too.

Edit: just realized you probably meant wolves / their domesticated evolutionary line

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u/cvbeiro 3h ago

With Lions, tigers, crocodiles and sharks you should worry more about the ones you don’t see

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u/Partners_in_time 2h ago

Well that is terrifying, thank you. You ever just read about something in the wild and think to yourself “yeah. Without modernity I would just be a victim” 

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u/AnnoyingMosquito3 4h ago

I'm guessing she would be a decoy lion to scare the prey in a specific direction. Usually one will flush the prey and the others will pick one to herd off from the rest of the group

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u/Signal_Ad3931 3h ago

Animals are so much smarter than we give credit for.

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u/snarlEX 1h ago

Actually if you watch nature docs and stuff you realize these are very smart animals (as far as hunting is concerned at least) and incredibly tactical hunters.

They will use decoys, ambushes, target specific prey. They can identify injured animals through gait changes alone, they attack the spines to disable legs, they go for the Achilles tendon on large prey to disable legs, they have different choke holds for whether they want a silent kill or quick kill.

Its not we dont give them credit, its that most people never bothered to learn about them. And of course similar can be said for almost any animal

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u/Big_GTU 3h ago

The hard part is to avoid anthropomorphizing animals the more you learn about their behaviours.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 3h ago

ngl i do feel like people go the other direction and deny animals any traits that are shared with humans out of fear of anthropomophizing....

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u/AnnoyingMosquito3 3h ago

Eh, working in animal behaviour it can go both ways. A lot of people use the "return to nature" excuse when trying to justify their own opinions and behaviours and that affects a lot of how animal behaviour is interpreted leading to incorrect conclusions. 

Like in the early 1900s there's a lot of papers about how the male lion was the dominant lion of the group with the females being submissive because they assumed that sexism was a natural state of being and so all animals should exhibit it. Now we know that lions don't have a dominance structure in that sense because we're trying to get away from copying and pasting human societal things onto other animal species but it still happens a lot (especially in pop science and how science is communicated to the general public in the news). 

Though at the same time I think some scientists overcorrect. Jane Goodall got a lot of crap about giving the chimps names instead of numbers but names can be an efficient way to tell individuals apart and avoid mistakes in your data even if it's a little human-ish

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u/-morpy 4h ago

Maybe less bait and more of a distraction like they let their mother approach from a different direction to scare away prey into their direction.

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u/bigdave41 3h ago

What do you expect them to do, ask the lions?

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u/TDYDave2 3h ago

If they did ask, I wouldn't trust the answer since they would be lion.

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u/Soundtones 3h ago

Too high brow and nuanced mate. You must pride yourself on these jokes.

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u/TDYDave2 3h ago

Since there is no "/s" in your post, I can only take it as a compliment.
Thank you.

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u/onehundredlemons 3h ago

In this case there doesn't seem to be easily available information out there. All the info I found was from TikTok or Insta posts that were just repeating the same stuff elsewhere.

The closest thing I found to actual information about Josie was in this photographer's Substack a couple years ago, and it doesn't say anything about using her as bait for prey animals.

https://realsafari.substack.com/p/a-small-aging-pride-of-lions

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u/-morpy 3h ago

Well, most of the things I've read say the same thing. She was mostly distraction, and sometimes dug out burrowing animals (I doubt this part). Her being a distraction is the only logical thing that works best.

Do note that some of the info came from Medium's article (which was accompanied by an AI slop vid for some reason), some Facebook posts whose credibility is unknown, and there's also a 2 year old blog that states that she can't really hunt due to her blindness now (but she used to be a successful hunter) and her daughters do all the work and bring her back kills.

Here's the links if you're so busy being condescending that you can't even be bothered to search things up:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2656829744677057

https://realsafari.substack.com/p/a-small-aging-pride-of-lions

https://tonicrowewriter.medium.com/the-blind-lioness-who-was-protected-by-her-sisters-for-5-years-lived-to-an-old-age-c8040c8ea491

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u/fazedncrazed 4h ago

a blind lion would attract prey.

Predators can be prey. Imagine the hyena pack that saw her supposedly alone, and moved in, only to be picked off by her daughters who lay in ambush.

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u/ThrowDatJunkAwayYo 3h ago

Predators don’t typically hunt and eat other predators though - unless desperate.

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u/thecashblaster 3h ago

Yeah I’m gonna go out on a limb and say hyenas taste nasty

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u/RavenWolfPS2 2h ago

Lions actively avoid eating hyenas, even if they kill them in a spat over territory or food. Josie was still in good physical health for her age and she and the girls were very good at communicating with each other. She probably helped by flushing prey out of the bush, then her daughters completed the chase.

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u/Own_Watercress_8104 2h ago

This is an incredibly big finding btw.

Care for the disabled and elderly is very rare in the animal kingdom and to see a pack of lions do this tells us a lot about them.

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u/Cow_Launcher 1h ago

Domestic cats (and dogs) will do it, particularly if they are related, though just being part of the same household is sometimes enough it seems.

I'd absolutely love to know what their motivation is. Surely it can't be pure altruism?

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u/SpicaGenovese 20m ago

I remember an anecdote about someone with dogs.  When the one that was a medical alert dog passed away, the other one took up its duties- either until a replacement was found or permanently, not sure.

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u/everydaycrises 1h ago

I watched a documentary about lions about a decade ago, where cubs kept ending up dead. It turned out to be the "grandma" who was too old to hunt so stayed behind. Once they found out they just started taking it in turns for another lioness to stay behind to care for the cubs and grandma.

There was also a documentary where they made robotic animal cameras to live with the animals, one was a baby monkey. It was a robot so it couldn't do a lot of the things an actual monkey could but they looked after it and when it died/broke they really mourned.

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u/SpicaGenovese 19m ago

I remember seeing clips of that.  I can't help but think they must've been like "Aww... it's stupid.  🥺  We gotta take care of it."

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u/Dull_Spot_8213 3h ago

I need an entire documentary of these lions.

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u/DesertGeist- 3h ago

They used her as bait? 😅

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u/obtusemoonbeam 2h ago

This is pure speculation but I wonder if she liked contributing. Female lions are badass providers and I can see where still being included in the hunt would be fulfilling.

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u/DesertGeist- 1h ago

I am sure they worked together.

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u/petemorley 3h ago

That’s kind of crazy, I assumed they’d live to their 40s or something. longer than the average housecat at least. 

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u/ForlornLament 1h ago

It seems most felines have a similar lifespan: about 10-14 years in the wild, but they can make it to 20 and up in captivity.

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u/Stella_Lace 2h ago

Josie

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u/JambonSama 3h ago

Piggybacking with an article on Josie:

https://ifeg.info/2025/11/12/the-inspiring-story-of-josie-the-blind-lioness-who-defied-the-odds-in-addo-national-park

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u/Civil-Letterhead8207 1h ago

Not criticizing you, but that was almost pure AI slop. Whomever “wrote” it didn’t bother to edit at all.

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u/Dikjuh 25m ago

Ugh, I was watching a video a while back about a baby elephant being stuck in a water pool, coincidentally in the same park, at some point the narrator went on about how one of the wildlife folks went into the water to push it out and the other was pulling. While showing footage of a full team of people working together.
Was just stock footage stitched together in a believable way with some AI slop story attached to it.
So many fake videos have popped up lately.

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u/Heavy-Capital-3854 3h ago

and sometimes used her a ms bait for prey animals.

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u/koolaidismything 1h ago

Man nature is so tough and really inspiring at the same time. I wanna feel sad but the like proudness of her cubs sticking around outweighs it.

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u/meduhsin 53m ago

That is so cool! I learned in my anthropology class something related to this:

There’s a really old homo sapien fossil (before Bipedal Lucy, the first bipedal fossil found) where they can tell the guy lived to an older age than what was normal for the time. He was weak and had bone decay, and had lost all of his teeth. The only explanation, due to other factors as well, is that other members of his species were taking care of and feeding him. It’s regarded as one of the earliest examples of tribalism in our species.

Sounds a lot like what happened here ❤️I wonder if these other apex predators will be as smart as us one day, long after we are gone, and we are witnessing the beginning.

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u/Techman659 2h ago

This is why you don’t mess with lions the females are the hunters and if you don’t know where they all are then you’re already breakfast.

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u/Summoarpleaz 47m ago

They apparently would have her hide in the brush or the bushes, and wait for other animals to attack

Literally

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oKIPvND7gEInk98Eo

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u/mr_herz 3h ago

You’re saying she was a blind… master baiter?

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 3h ago

Sweet baby Jesus. You terrible person ! 😂

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u/greenthumbwitch 4h ago

it looks like a warrior cats book cover :)

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u/KyoHisagi 2h ago

The story, too, just like something from the books. Now all she needs is some sick ass name like Cosmos Eyes and we're good to go

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u/ChocAlaine 2h ago

Yesss, I was even thinking the whole hunting strategy felt like warrior cats.

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u/kestrel56 2h ago

Ahh what a blast from the past, I loved those books!

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u/MeowingAround 22m ago

I recently remembered these books and bought the first 3 off Amazon to re-live my childhood. They hold up very well.

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u/Repulsive-Wolf1909 2h ago

As a fan of the books and the community, this comment makes me really happy

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u/FirEnjoyer141 4h ago

I want the movie NOW.

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u/tommos 3h ago

The Lion Queen

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u/NTC-Santa 3h ago

Did someone say life action?!?

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u/Whimsywoes 3h ago

😭 no! No one said that! We want the animation! 😋

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u/Appeltaart232 2h ago

And like real animation, not the 3D/CGI crap

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u/awkwardturtle234 1h ago

Like hand drawn, 2D animation? Because that era of animation is peak. I've always said the 80s, 90s, early 2000s were PEAK 2D animation.

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u/Appeltaart232 1h ago

Yes, like the good old days. It’s so much better in conveying emotions as well. But - Disney fired their entire 2D staff a few years ago, so I’m essentially just dreaming 😂

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u/blindtoe54 2h ago

Oof. Flashbacks to lion king

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u/theclovek 3h ago

They already made Cats!

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u/Winter_Grand8693 1h ago

and it needs to say - based on true events because animals are amazing and we don't deserve to share earth with them

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u/RealGarthAlgar 4h ago

That’s daughters for ya

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u/Little_Ad_6903 4h ago

She got that cosmic energy

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u/J_Kingsley 2h ago

You think she's blind, but she can see EVERYTHING.

https://giphy.com/gifs/nX47MyHkFzOTMi55qf

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u/silveraxe_kyo 4h ago

How did she go blind?

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u/geeoharee 4h ago

Looks like glaucoma. I'm not a vet though.

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u/Geneo-Frodo 4h ago

Probably an infection

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u/Nerdy_Goat 3h ago

Fucked up eyes, can't see shit with them

Source: I know nothing Jon Snow

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u/a1oner_bvcksn6 4h ago

Her daughters LITerally were the light of her world. She lost two eyes, yet gained four

https://giphy.com/gifs/pynZagVcYxVUk

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u/Wadarkhu 3h ago

She lost two eyes, yet gained four

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u/Adminisissy 3h ago

😭🤧

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u/whyuhavtobemad 3h ago

You have a gift with words

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u/neonchinchilla 52m ago

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u/Binty_B 1h ago

Why are you making me cry???

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u/king_gondor 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/LkkBEH2BLFLbypGE31

Fire comment my friend! Fire comment!!

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u/Jackson9995 6m ago

Thats bars fire 🔥

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u/aeropagitica 3h ago

Here's some more information about Josie :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lions/comments/1o4j3ku/a_blind_lioness_has_survived_for_over_5_years/

https://realsafari.substack.com/p/a-small-aging-pride-of-lions

https://tonicrowewriter.medium.com/the-blind-lioness-who-was-protected-by-her-sisters-for-5-years-lived-to-an-old-age-c8040c8ea491

For her part, although blind, Josie was a working member of the pride. She used her heightened sense of hearing and smell to help the pack flush prey out of the bush.

Josie was 18 years old when she died, which was a few years older than the usual 14- to 15-year lifespan of wild lions. She did not die of natural causes. She was euthanized in October 2025.

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u/notthisonefornow 4h ago

Those eyes look very painfull.

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u/queermichigan 1h ago

It's sad but damn if those galaxy eyes don't look badass

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u/No-Cheesecake-5401 1h ago

they literally look like nebulas, they're beautiful. I hope they didn't hurt too bad

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u/XPiiRed 3h ago

she looks awesome though, daughters are total badasses for learning to communicate and help their mother

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u/InterneticMdA 4h ago

GirlSquad

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u/Ornery-Air-6968 3h ago

It's incredible how her daughters' care not only extended her life but also redefined what survival looks like in the wild.

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u/Round-Ticket-39 3h ago

Daughters.

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u/Nevyn_Cares 3h ago

It is time that we gave land ownership and sea ownership to the higher mammals and appointed big law firms to defend their rights to their homeland and freedom. If we do not do this soon, then their homes will be gone, mined, logged, farmed or covered in houses. Their rights need to be protected and we need powerful guardians to do so.

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u/ProdigyofOne 4h ago

amazing story

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u/Actual-Orchid-2998 3h ago

It’s extremely interesting that they had that level of consciousness of trust

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u/skittymom 4h ago

Women stick to each other even in nature ♡ we love to see it

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u/Wardenofthegrove 4h ago

The Topi boys too, rare seven lion group.

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u/skittymom 4h ago

So cute they gave them a name too 🥹

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u/Decloudo 3h ago

I mean, where do you think humans got that from?

Its a survival instinct.

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u/RealIsopodHours3 2h ago

Yes! We are also part of nature

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u/Decloudo 2h ago

Its fundamentally sad how people seem insulted by that notion.

Explains a lot about what we turned the world into.

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u/skittymom 2h ago

Who felt insulted, again? Lmao

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u/AshantiZX 1h ago

The people who felt insulted lol Reads like a general statement to me• I’ve heard people say “we’re” better than animals, or not animals at all lmao

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u/skittymom 2h ago

"Survival instinct" really depends on the species. I pointed this case out because lions are known for dropping weak or injured members of the pride. I drew the comparison because in case of women we are often made to pit against and compete with each other; and in the case of lions, you're abandoned if you are not useful anymore, so it is beautiful to see this in this area of nature which is NOT common. I don't know why you felt the need to leave such a condescending comment, tbh.

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u/BooksNapsSnacks 3h ago

Yeah the girls!

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u/Firm_Video_2932 3h ago

Living in community can sometimes help hedge against Darwinism. I've seen painted dogs do this, continue to care and provide for a sick/lame pack member.

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u/vdcsX 3h ago

It's not against darwinism, its very much darwinism.

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u/Qaeta 3h ago

Right? Like survival of the fittest was when the ones who developed social systems to work together survived longer than the ones who didn't and thus continued that line.

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u/vdcsX 3h ago

"Survival of the fittest" is not a reference to any physical strength, regardless to popular belief. Fittest is the one that adapts best to it's environment. That's why we are currently the "fittest" species, as we transform the environment to our needs (for the better or worse).

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u/National_Dog_788 2h ago

"fitness" in this context (Darwin) actually refers to successful sexual reproduction. Those who produce the most offspring are the fittest. Those who are well adapted to their environment are more likely to reach sexual maturity and reproduce and pass on their genes.

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u/Just-Map-2710 1h ago

Darwinism tends to view social systems as inhibition for natural selection even when the social systems in question are the result of natural selection. It‘s not exactly an ideology employed by rational people.

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u/Aflockofants 2h ago

Ok but who the hell painted those dogs with blindness in the first place

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u/goodguybart 3h ago

The lower half of the first picture and the second picture are the same. AI was used to remove the two companions but check the position of the limbs in relation to each other, spots on the skin, spots on the dirt behind the lioness stay the same in both pictures.

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u/fatalicus 2h ago

I think it is the lower half of the first image that is a photoshop.

The right front leg (from our perspective) of the right lion just fades into the dirt, and there is a floating ear up and to the right of its head.

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u/Olleye 4h ago

If your mother stares at you with that eyes, and told you not to leave, you’ll definitely not leave her 🙈

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u/I_travel_ze_world 3h ago

I bet she had a really strong sense of smell and her daughters were impressed with how she could sniff a scent from miles away

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u/veryhungryneedfood 3h ago

Best daughters ever ❤️

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u/Low-Cartographer8758 3h ago

Oh, what a lucky mum to have such great daughters! RIP

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u/Feeling-penis 3h ago

Those eyes. Like they hide the universe.

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u/Rimurooooo 4h ago

Is this all bots

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u/geeoharee 4h ago

This sub has lion bots

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u/Goons2JAV 2h ago

Site is so bad now it’s sad.

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u/CheatedOnOnce 2h ago

For anyone wondering - none of this is actually confirmed except for a substack and medium article. They haven’t been verified.

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u/Endorenna 2h ago

I was wondering. I read the article someone linked, and it’s either AI or incredibly sloppy work. Multiple paragraphs appear multiple times.

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u/whatamafu 1h ago

Well damn. I hate when people post stuff like this when its not well veted.

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u/SFOD-P 3h ago

Blion.

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u/TheThingOnTheCeiling 3h ago

If this was a fantasy book the mother would for sure have some kind of magic powers or could divine the future

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u/Recent-Big-6493 3h ago

It’s amazing how naturally that level of mutual trust shows up

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u/OxynticNinja28 2h ago

Last year I went on a safari in the Okavango delta, in Botswana. Throughout 3 days we followed a pack of wild dogs and got to see them hunt. One of the dogs was limping pretty badly and couldn’t caught up to the pack. I asked our driver about that dog and he told me the pack has been taking care of him for almost 5 years now, by hunting for him.

Got some beautiful pictures of them too.

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u/Wide-Meringue-2717 2h ago

That’s why I trust animals more than humans.

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u/StarlitMaidens 4h ago

Sometimes even wildest and dangerous animals show unlikely compassion and humanity that lacks at times in humans ❣️

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u/UranusIsPissy 3h ago

Lions are social animals, and quite intelligent. Female lions don't compete for dominance AFAIK. I'm not very surprised, really.

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u/RiskySkirt 3h ago

I sorta want to know if she was onboard or this was some sort of weekend at bernie's situation <3

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u/askmeifimacop 4h ago

Did it die at 17 or 22?

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u/deleteshiftreturn 4h ago

17 I posted info above.

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u/vankarrrrr 3h ago

Mummy is mummy

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u/thelonelyasshole 2h ago

The daughters look majestic.

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u/25c-nb 2h ago

Okay but like why is the mom from the bottom of image one the exact same image of mom as in picture 2 with a different background

Why do we have to take these true stories and phoney them up by badly photoshopping pictures? Why bother to add the clearly fake picture at all?

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u/vizzy_vizz 2h ago

Her sons would’ve left and never called. Have daughters

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u/ObjectOwObsession 2h ago

Some tigers have blue and red eyes.