Comments on: Lions Dó See The Elephant In The Room http://themoderatevoice.com/9020/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Sat, 25 May 2013 20:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: BrianOfAtlanta http://themoderatevoice.com/9020/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-30842 BrianOfAtlanta Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:51:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/10/04/uncategorized/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-30842 I’ll second bellisaurius’s and Mikkel’s comments. Sounds like a fascinating opportunity to study wildlife behavior.

]]> By: Rudi http://themoderatevoice.com/9020/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-30838 Rudi Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:41:02 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/10/04/uncategorized/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-30838 MvdG – You should remove these photos, in lite of Foleygate, it appears the lions are fornicating with the elephants as they hunt them. Oh, the PERVERSIONS in the GODLESS animal world…..LOL

]]> By: Jim B http://themoderatevoice.com/9020/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-30836 Jim B Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:37:35 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/10/04/uncategorized/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-30836 Michael, Not sure why but the graf beginning w/ “A few years ago stories” is repeated. Looks like your cut/paste or whatever you used to copy it got messed up.

Thanks for the article, interesting.

]]> By: Michael van der Galien http://themoderatevoice.com/9020/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-30831 Michael van der Galien Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:29:28 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/10/04/uncategorized/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-30831 Mikkel: good point. That does not seem to be far fetched or anything to me. Elephants are highly intelligent: if lions can adapt and hunt on new pray, so must elephants be able to learn to defend themselves (heck, I mean, this is what evolution is, isn’t it)

Bellisaurius: o I agree with you completely. I don’t consider it to be sad. Simply a natural thing: if the lions don’t kill elephants they die from hunger.

]]> By: Mikkel http://themoderatevoice.com/9020/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-30822 Mikkel Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:14:55 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/10/04/uncategorized/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-30822 I first heard about this a couple years ago. Considering elephant intelligence and extremely complex social structures I think it’ll be interesting to see if they devise ways to lure and kill the lions for defense. I’m not saying this will happen, but if one group of elephants figured this out and communicated the strategy to another group it’d be an amazing observation — there is evidence that they might communicate to each other about individual’s deaths, for when a matriarch dies other herds come over and “pay respects.”

]]> By: bellisaurius http://themoderatevoice.com/9020/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/comment-page-1/#comment-30818 bellisaurius Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:10:00 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/10/04/uncategorized/lions-do-see-the-elephant-in-the-room/#comment-30818 I think the article tried to make it sound tragic to see elephants being killed, but it seems to be a good thing. My understanding has been that the elephants have a pretty big impact on the area. Some predation by the lions sounds healthy.

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