r/interesting • u/BabaBaaghdev • 20d ago
Wholesome A lioness pushes her cub forward, unaware that there’s water below.
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u/Miballsurchin 20d ago
That rescue looked like it hurt a lot.
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u/Apprehensive_Gas56 19d ago
I could never get a grip on how life without opposable thumbs must suck
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u/Alternative-Jelly947 19d ago
You’ve no idea how stretchy and thick skin above the shoulders is on pups. It’s designed to allow the parent to pick them up.
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u/Appropriate_Tiger953 13d ago
Yes exactly, like the elephants skin is also designed to allow their parents to pick them up
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u/AncientNectarine5352 20d ago
Yep, the cub most likely needs medical attention after this. Makes one thankful that we have thumbs.
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u/Pitiful_Face871 20d ago
Nah, (most) wild animals are tough af. This cat would be fine.
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u/ConnectionWild3381 20d ago
Survivorship bias. We only see the ones that made it. The others died somewhere in the bushes from infections.
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u/That-Chip-3575 19d ago
No dude, they have really thick skin
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u/Diiagari 19d ago
Yeah thick skin that is also highly elastic. The cubs are routinely carried around by the scruff of their necks, and their skin has adapted to that use. It was probably painful and damaging, but not a serious injury.
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u/KonkeyDongPrime 19d ago
Cats’ immune system on the skin above the membrane is pretty serious. Their skin is thick and relatively impervious to infection.
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u/The_Real_Lasagna 16d ago
Redditors repeating Reddit buzzwords in places that don't make sense is one of my favorite genres of Reddit post
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u/AncientNectarine5352 20d ago
If it was just once and/or not the combination of multiple tries with claws and skin, I’d agree with you. This was was tougher than what they’re used to handling.
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u/Reddit_user2124 14d ago
Their hides are much tougher than human skin. Animals, like humans evolve based on their environment. This is natural way a mother carries it cub. Similar to how a house hold dog carries her pup.
Any trained dog owner will lift pups by the back of their neck similar to how the mom will.
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u/MedievalMilshake 19d ago
No it for sure didn't. How do you think lions usually carry their cubs around? It's standard and never injure their cubs, cause they're not idiots
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u/WhiskyDelta14 19d ago
Yes, picked up with teeth. Claws are way sharper. At least in house cats.
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u/MedievalMilshake 19d ago
That's nice, you do realise that's not a house cat right? It's a fucking lion, they don't have sharp claws. Basic Google search would've told you that
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u/WhiskyDelta14 19d ago
I looked it up and they look pretty sharp to me. Way sharper than the teeth anyway. But whatever.
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u/MedievalMilshake 19d ago
They look sharp yes, they still tear animals apart. But not relatively, which is why they can use them to grab their cubs. Do you see a torn apart cub in the video? Or do you see zero damage?
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u/supified 19d ago
They are quite stupid and especially in the wild, most of their cubs die. For example, it's wild you're posting about them not being stupid on a thread about a video where the mother literally creates the situation she has to then rescue the cub from.
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u/graywolfman 19d ago
"Shit! Stop squirming! One stab is better than three stabs! Three stabs is better than drowning! Shit, shit, shit! Sorrysorrysorry!"
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u/DeliciousStand372 20d ago
the way she panicked when she first noticed 😭😭😭😭
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u/Nelle911529 19d ago
The way the cub panicked. He's like screw you mom you just tried killing me twice.
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u/anankepandora 19d ago
Seriously, maybe the most relatable animal moment I have ever seen. I felt that in my soul.
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u/ReasonableDefault 20d ago
Deserves an apology tbf.
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u/Logical-Stable-991 20d ago
and some favorite candies. 😋
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u/Ok-Dare-8414 19d ago
And a World of Warcraft subscription.... I might just forget about something like this for one of those
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u/girls-and-corpses 19d ago
I can't forget about it either after that guy shoved the remote up his ass
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u/FilthyBarMat 20d ago
This is going to come up every Thanksgiving. Mom will never hear the end of this.
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u/Queen_Malia 20d ago
Poor momma when she realized 'oh shit! That's not grass!' And the cub being as confused on why he suddenly ended up in water. Also, the claws in the skin… oww 😬
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u/katastrofika 19d ago
Yeah I looked closer and she was actually just trying to bathe him by licking him and knocked him over for ease of access. She totally didn't expect this
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u/Queen_Malia 19d ago
She looked so scared. Seeing your child in distress is already frightening for a parent, but knowing you're the one who put them in distress by accident is even worse. Damn i feel for that poor lioness.
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u/red-foxie 18d ago
I don't think she understood she was the cause of distress. Lions are not as smart to contemplate what they've done and it's effects. She panicked because her child was in danger, panicking, it was very sudden and unexpected and she didn't had any easy access to save it :(
I see this video every few months and I'm so stressed anytime I see it, even tho I know that it ends good.
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u/NotaBat9221 15d ago
Predator animals like ourselves tend to be pretty intelligent. I think in order to survive in the wild there has to be some concept of cause and effect.
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u/Kindly_Stand_6895 14d ago
Even housecats can figure out "when I did that thing, something else happened, I caused that to happen"
No reason a large cat couldn't figure out the same thing. I pushed my child -> my child fell because there was no floor where my child was -> I caused my child to fall by pushing them. Simple and totally within the grasp of a lot of animals.
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u/RealLavender 19d ago
My old Lab walked right off a dock onto a pile of algae that she thought was grass. She looked so shocked when she popped up.
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u/kayescl0sed 20d ago
And THAT is how you traumatize your child for the rest of its life.
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u/thejamhole 20d ago
I feel like a lot of us learned to swim this way too and we turned out alright. Well some of us at least.
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u/HighCommand69 20d ago
Those of us that survived?
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u/SlyMacross 19d ago
My neighbor did essentially this to me when I was a kid in his pool. I did not know how to swim at that time.
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u/abracablab 20d ago
Reminds me when I encouraged my dog to just jump right out of the car once I'd secured it in the driveway of the dog park. He still had his doggy seatbelt clipped on. Poor lad went arse over tit and dangled helplessly for a second whilst I momentarily freaked and scooped him up. I'll never get over the guilt.
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u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 20d ago
At the end, you can almost hear the cub meowing to himself: "Hell with mom's games. I'm gonna play with my siblings."
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u/Vladishun 20d ago
Probably in a lot of pain. Cats don't have thumbs, she had to hook her claws into the cub's flesh to pull him up. At least the "bite" at the end to yank it all the way was probably more gentle since there's a top and bottom to the mouth to apply pressure more evenly.
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u/Mr_Tranxistor 20d ago
Basically how I was taught to swim in the 90s. Never trusted mom again after that.
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u/Kindness-Ladder5893 19d ago
Did she also yank her pointy long nail into you and start pulling you up?
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u/Icy_Exercise_9162 20d ago
Zoo’s fault for putting up that stupid pond with no means to climb out
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u/BalianofReddit 19d ago
Theres definately a couple of places to climb out, but cats are bad at round about thinking if they've not had practice
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u/explodingtuna 20d ago
They should put a log or ramp a few feet to the left or right of where this video was focused.
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u/Parking-Bet7989 19d ago
Poor fella.
He is never going to trust reality again. Probably so damaged that he will blame everything on her, live in her basement and talk about "redpills" and how the world is flat because NASA is lying to us.
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u/BigMack6911 20d ago
The baby was attacking the mom lol like dammit you're hurting me. Cats are wild man
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u/Earlybirdsgetworms 19d ago
Loved it when she gave him a couple swats like “dammit I’m trying to help you!!”
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u/yuckella 19d ago
And people say that animals doesn’t have feelings. I’ve never seen a lion this stressed lmao, I’m glad it ended well
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u/Pitif362 20d ago
The cub must have been hurting as she used her claws to drag it out. It fought back. Then ran away from her. I hope it got checked out afterwards.
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u/Realistic_Plant5974 19d ago
It looks painful, yes… but not nearly as bad as it would be for a human. Their hide is way more tough to withstand bites, claws and piercing attacks by either prey or other lions.
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u/Drong0bones 19d ago
Why do they play music over these things lol takes away from the drama of it all. Glad she rescued him / her though!
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u/ChaosRainbow23 20d ago edited 19d ago
Did you see the look of absolute panic when the cub instantly sank into the murky depths?
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u/CrikeyNighMeansNigh 20d ago
I did…mum was scared shitless too.
She could have definitely, you know, handled it better… granted I do seem to remember bobbing for apples pre everyone deep throating a barrel of water isn’t a great idea cerca 1998 or do, so I have some sympathy for her. But she definitely was extremely worried.
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u/Keepingitquite123 19d ago
Of course she know it's there. She is in a zoo enclosure. That space is her entire world. You think she is suffering from dementia or something?
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u/MrScribz 19d ago
Cat must shove thing off of shelf. Cat must also save kitten from danger. Cat often forgets what consequences are.
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u/fortnite_battleass 19d ago
Genuinely a lot of zoo animals do go insane from enclosures being too small and not having the right kind of socializing
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u/Yearning_crescent 19d ago
did you not see her entire body language switch up to anxiety and shock?
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u/umpteenthian 20d ago
"unaware"? you think that was the first time it had walked by that spot?
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u/ImUnderYourBeed 19d ago
Those claws probably soo painful the cub is rethinking pass and future life choices
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u/quetzalpt 19d ago
What if there are no such thing as irrational fears because not everything is about one part of your body?
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u/leadwind 19d ago
They should probably clear that algae so it doesn't look like grass, and this happens again.
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u/DoubleAggravating837 19d ago
running away from her as soon as he is on land and his mom running behind him , so human 😂
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u/beantherio 19d ago
TERRIBLE mom. And the way at the end when she drags the cub as far away from the water as she can as if to say "stay away from the water because it's dangerous!". Yes mom, thanks to your actions she/he knows. 🙄
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u/Love2readalot 19d ago
Would’ve been better without the music, the original clip would’ve been better, watched with the sound muted.
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u/Putrid-Ear-5350 19d ago
Oh goddd!! I panicked while seeing this... Thank God the cub was finally rescued 😮💨
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u/scas20332 19d ago edited 10d ago
The cub running up in the background, seeing the situation and dipping fast is the most accurate representation of a sibling walking in when your moms beating ya ass
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u/Parking-Bee8276 19d ago
The way every Gen X kid learnt to swim. Good to see 80s parenting making a comeback.
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u/Intentional_Innocent 19d ago
No matter what, moms are moms. How the lioness got panic and nervous with the fear of losing her cub, ❤️❤️. The sayings were very true that, since God cannot be with all of us, God created Mothers to take care of us.
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u/Vivians_Basement 19d ago
Imagine your mom drowning you like that and then clawing at you, shit I'd run too.
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u/ebk_errday 19d ago
All your weight, pulling on your skin, hanging off the singular claw of a lioness
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