Butterscotch’s Relatives
October 14th 2009 21:00
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Cleaning up my work station one day, I found a picture of a lioness. I showed it to a colleague, referring to her as Butterscotch’s relative.
“They may be related but that makes no difference to a lioness,” said my colleague.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“The lioness might know that Butterscotch is part of the cat family but she will still eat him. Or, more likely, she will play with him the way a cat does with a mouse.”
“Lions don’t eat cats,” I said. Hours of watching numerous nature documentaries have yet to yield any footage suggesting otherwise. My colleague still insisted that Butterscotch would be prey to a lion. I checked Wikipedia. Nope. According to the web site, lions are only interested in large animals such as wildebeest, impalas, buffaloes, warthogs, zebras and deer. They tend to avoid extremely large animals such as giraffes, rhinoceroses and elephants although they are known to munch on the latter when they are desperately hungry. There is no mention of lions eating other cats – large or small. If anything, they tend to avoid eating their “relatives”.
Wikipedia lions page
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