Comments on: The Science of Lion Prides https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/ Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:30:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Uganda Safari https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538927 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:30:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538927 It is very dangerous to bring lions at home. i don’t know of any who has ever lives with lions.

]]> By: Uganda Safaris https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538926 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:27:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538926 of course you cant keep cannibal at home, they will eat you and and you regret why you brought them home.

]]> By: Gorilla trekking https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538925 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:03:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538925 This is really an interesting finding about the role of the male lions in the group-territorial competition

]]> By: Racheal of Safari Trek https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538924 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:30:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538924 Lions are such great creatures.They are beautiful in their own ways and i must say that if they weren’t harmful to human life,many people would be keeping them as pets.But since that is not the issue,then they shouldn’t not kept.Thanks for the information and great site.

]]> By: Gorilla safaris https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538923 Mon, 30 May 2011 10:26:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538923 The whole idea of keeping lions as pets is very wrong!! It defies nature.

]]> By: Safari Tanzania https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538922 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:46:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538922 It is not right for these animals to be isolated unnaturally, however when lions reach a certain age, they are pushed out of the pride by younger males coming through.

]]> By: Serengeti park https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538921 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:29:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538921 Very good piece of observation on lions. I will not advice anyone to have a lion as a household pet.

]]> By: Anne Gilbert https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538920 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:43:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538920 For those interested, yes, domestic cats(Felis silvestris catus) are, in some ways, much like lions. Two females with kittens will sometimes join forces,if they “know” each other. There’s always a “milk bar” and both sets of kittens have a better chance of surviving this way, because the mothers have better opportunities to feed themselves. Cats in any given neighborhood, of both sexes, may form loose “associations”, though there is often a “head cat”(usually, but not always, a male), and they have overlapping “territories” that they can “time share”. They may also act “cooperatively” on occasion to “deal” with problems such as bothersome dogs. I’ve seen this happen, and I’ve seen two females raising kittens together. There have been several studies on this.
Anne G

]]> By: Nathan Myers https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538919 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:34:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538919 Why would the principles used in the paper not apply equally well (with some numbers adjusted) to primates, once they become strongly predatorial? It might have become inadvisable for female primates to be out alone, too.

I wonder, does preventing females by threat from straying have much the same result as actually killing them? Because the former is the signal that affects selection.

]]> By: ppnl https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538918 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:40:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/30/the-science-of-lion-prides/#comment-538918 I seem to remember that common house cats have a social structure very similar to lions. It must be true I saw it on the science channel.

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