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Anonymous
Could a lion ever be tamed? Say you are given a baby lion, and raise it all your life, would it be considered safe for you [the master] to be around this lion? Would the lion try to kill you at any point for no reason?
>> Anonymous
No
No
Yes
>> Skrully McSkrullerson
Tamed or not theres still a pretty damn good chance it'll kill you or some one else eventually. Its a friggin' lion.
>> Anonymous
>>319347
Deaths and maulings by captive lions are nowhere near as common as with tigers or, AFAIK, even jaguars, but they're not completely unheard of.

>Allison Brent Abell, 52, was killed on February 12 by a black-maned African lion he had raised from a cub at Cougar Bluff Enterprise, described by Becky Malkovich of The Southern Illinoisan as “an exotic wildlife preserve that sheltered the lion, eight pumas, a bobcat, and eight wolves. The exhibit license was issued in 2000 in his wife Kathie Abell’s name.” Away at the time of the attack, Kathie Abell arrived home to see the lion at large. As she did not know how to use the tranquilizer gun kept for such emergencies, she authorized Hardin County sheriff’s deputies to kill the lion. Abell’s remains were found later.
>> Anonymous
>>319347

who plays with elephants, whales, tigers, etc. daily? all of those animals have either trampled/mauled people plenty of times with little to no reason...so i'd say theyre not very tame
>> Anonymous
>>319357
I've never seen a zookeeper trampled and mauled, if it was an epidemic they wouldn't keep them in zoos, but you can handle them and even have sex with some of them

>>319354
one out of how many lions?
>> Anonymous
My cat bites me, and scratches at me if shes really pissed off. But shes small so its not big deal.

If she were larger Shed have scratched my face off long ago.
>> Anonymous
>>319366
this actually proves my point...

tons of animals are said to be "tame" but still have bursts of rage/retardation

dogs bite, but that's different than getting bit by a lion

DOESN'T MAKE THE LION ANY LESS TAME NAO DOES IT
>> Anonymous
>>319303
>Would the lion try to kill you at any point for no reason?

You're asking whether or not a cat would try to kill you for no reason? Have you ever been around cats?
>> Anonymous
People can't even handle regular housecats. What do you think it's stronger and more wild cousin would do to you?
>> Anonymous
Take a big shit on one and see what is does...

if nothing then you're g2g...
>> Anonymous
>>319410
no shit>>319340already posted it

read the fucking thread before posting
>> Anonymous
Cats have been domesticated over centuries, lions have not. A lion MAY be friendly with you when it's older but there will always be the chance that it would just revert to instincts and would never be safe.
>> Anonymous
>>319366
Domesticating a lion would not stop this; they're big, they can't help it. You can socialize with them and form a bond with them as the two guys did with Cristian the Lion, but it's a lot or work and dedication.
>> Anonymous
OP, there was a famous case of a lioness that was raised from a cub, called Elsa. Eventually she was let go to join a lone male and form a pride of her own, and her former owner would go on to write "Born Free".

My understanding is that though she was raised with humans, she was pretty much left to her own devices most of the time, and this being the days before animal cruelty, they used a big stick on her if she ever misbehaved, as well as carrying a gun around all the time.
>> Anonymous
>>319303
This thread requires more Christian the Lion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U
>> Anonymous
I"ve just been listening to david attenborough's memoirs and he spoke about elsa's story. In it elsa's cubs were all brought up around the camp and weren't socialised. It's thought that they were all shot because of turning on humans later on.
>> Anonymous
nice picture, thanks
>> Anonymous
>>319450

...yeh. I've seen the film clip, I have certain doubts about the whole thing. Especially the bit where the lion introduces the men to his 'wife' and she comes up for pats.
>> Anonymous
I read somewhere that ALL animals that CAN be domesticated in their current form HAVE been domesticated.
>> Anonymous
>>320090

I call bullshit on that purely because we are always discovering new breeds and species. Like those ones in the Indonesian rainforests - the type of giant rat or such.
>> Anonymous
>>320090
Actually no, that's not true. We've domesticated all the easily domesticable species, but there are lots of species that are possible to domesticate, nobody just hasn't gone through the trouble. Russian experiments have shown that animals like foxes, that have not been domesticated (captive breeding is not domestication) can be turned into dog-like domestics in just 40 generations of selective breeding. Same goes for wild rats. I'm willing to bet it would work on birds too, if you wanted, say, domesticated magpies for some reason.