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Predators around here have the same behavior pattern, hatari. Except ours have face tattoos and speak Spanish - or Polynesian.
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Funny how lions have 2 distinct personalities. During daylight hours, they lounge around and nap and can be scared off or away. About an hour before sundown, they get up, get angry, and get to work. Ya, in another, longer version that video I linked, they said that stunt was way too dangerous to pull after dark. ...and then I think of all the times I used to walk a couple of miles home at night in the dark in West Africa from the next village up the mountain, no flashlight or lantern, a stunt that the locals would NEVER try to pull.... ...no lions right where I was, and leopards were rare. Their stated fear was of witches and witchcraft, but that cultural norm likely came from a time when they really did have a reason to be afraid of the dark  Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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You mean these aint for eating crickets? ![[Linked Image]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4VYOE-xRu5k/maxresdefault.jpg)
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...(but near as I can tell they did it in groups...
Birdwatcher Mike, In 1986, while on the North Slope, I met the last Eskimo to have killed an adult Polar Bear with a spear. He did it the traditional way, alone on the ice, pretending to be a seal to decoy the bear close enough to kill it.  Ed Did that Inuit have balls the size of Coconuts ? 
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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Funny how lions have 2 distinct personalities. During daylight hours, they lounge around and nap and can be scared off or away. About an hour before sundown, they get up, get angry, and get to work. Ya, in another, longer version that video I linked, they said that stunt was way too dangerous to pull after dark. ...and then I think of all the times I used to walk a couple of miles home at night in the dark in West Africa from the next village up the mountain, no flashlight or lantern, a stunt that the locals would NEVER try to pull.... ...no lions right where I was, and leopards were rare. Their stated fear was of witches and witchcraft, but that cultural norm likely came from a time when they really did have a reason to be afraid of the dark Birdwatcher Mike, I would have been much more worried about the snakes!
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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I see Darwin still had the correct theory.
My home is the "sanctuary residence" for my firearms.
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Funny how lions have 2 distinct personalities. During daylight hours, they lounge around and nap and can be scared off or away. About an hour before sundown, they get up, get angry, and get to work. Ya, in another, longer version that video I linked, they said that stunt was way too dangerous to pull after dark. ...and then I think of all the times I used to walk a couple of miles home at night in the dark in West Africa from the next village up the mountain, no flashlight or lantern, a stunt that the locals would NEVER try to pull.... ...no lions right where I was, and leopards were rare. Their stated fear was of witches and witchcraft, but that cultural norm likely came from a time when they really did have a reason to be afraid of the dark Birdwatcher Mike, I would have been much more worried about the snakes! Forest cobras were the ones to really worry about, a poor girl at our school was killed by one when she stepped over a log in the forest, bit her on the ankle. So I guess I'm like most Africans I met; I personally knew of someone killed by a snake. Yet, from that same village where I would go in the evenings during the dry season to get water, one time some blowhard forbade me to leave the village because after the coup there was a dusk to dawn curfew. I might have considered staying over but the guy was a real d&ck, so I slipped out the back way and walked that two miles back to my own village through the forest on footpaths, navigating by dead reckoning by the light of a full moon. I know that was me because I remember doing it. Whether that was the same guy that sits typing this now I cannot tell.... Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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What? You can't pet the big kitty?
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Funny how lions have 2 distinct personalities. During daylight hours, they lounge around and nap and can be scared off or away. About an hour before sundown, they get up, get angry, and get to work. Ya, in another, longer version that video I linked, they said that stunt was way too dangerous to pull after dark. ...and then I think of all the times I used to walk a couple of miles home at night in the dark in West Africa from the next village up the mountain, no flashlight or lantern, a stunt that the locals would NEVER try to pull.... ...no lions right where I was, and leopards were rare. Their stated fear was of witches and witchcraft, but that cultural norm likely came from a time when they really did have a reason to be afraid of the dark Birdwatcher Driving a dirt road/track in Zambia at night. Stopped to take a leak in the middle of the road. Climbed back in the car and 1/2 mile down the raod came up on a tom leopard trotting along. Whoa! Not in Kansas, Toto.
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