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It seems the lion from Madagascar has been located.
N
That landing didn’t look very healthy
D
I was thinking the exact same thing! Very unhealthy!
R
Nope. Not healthy at all.
Q
Lions aren’t known for eating their vegetables so no not very healthy at all.
M
Yeah, I guess they didn’t get that landing thing that other cats got.
C
Even my Maine Coon doesnt and hes 13kg (giga for a cat, smol compared to lion). I have to remind myself and my gf that we need to treat him like a dog, unlike his little sister who gets grabbed and moved like a little accessory that bounces high and low
D
> 13kg Damn… my cat’s huge (body length) for a normal cat and only weighs 5.5kg
C
Maine coons are YUGE we had one when I was growing up that was about 25lbs and super long
R
Yeah my highland lynx boy is like that. Similar in size and just looks very rough jumping off even the back of the couch. He runs down stairs like a maniac and I get concerned every time.
T
lions are not ever climing trees and are pack hunters….. all the reasons for cats beeing able to land well is the tree climbing the agility and speed of solo hunting or bird catching… lions havent done any of these things rly for millions of years…. dont think a little fall broke its legs or anything do, more just to weak to catch itself so it faceplanted. not sure why i bothered typing this, my apologies
S
Hey don’t put yourself down like that, thanks for sharing
P
the real wtf is the friends we make along the way
B
More mass, heavier impacts from falling. Small things can fall further without ouch. Big things have their bones go crunch. Science.
I
My cat would have done way better… even from the same height.
A
My knees buckled when I saw that too.
D
Walk it off….
H
It’s nice to see a lion not looking majestic for at least a couple seconds, once in awhile!! It just reminds you that they’re still ridiculous house cats deep down, when they aren’t being kingly!
I
Maybe they sedated him and he was still under some effects?
G
Definitely hasn’t practiced his superhero landing…
R
I think he really hurt himself
C
Yeah with how that landing looked I think there’s a good chance he might’ve just broken something. That walk at the end is the “holy fuck this hurts but I don’t want to let anyone know that” walk.
F
Lions are pretty squishy and he spread the impact on four legs and a broad chest. I’m optimistic that he’s only bruised
I
He came away with a bruised pride.
J
He promised he wouldn’t climb out the hole in the top, but apparently he was …
M
…. THUNDER STRUCK!!
C
Those hind legs are what kinda concerned me, they look like they just gave out on the landing.
S
Ain’t easy being 400 pounds and stopping a story
N
Cats are known for actively hiding injuries.
J
🤌It’s a fuckin Lion, not your neighbors orange cat..they fall out of tress, take down 800lb prey that fighting for its life, and shed no blood after taking multiple hyena bites to the face..but that 10ft jump from the truck? Kryptonite.
F
Aaaaaand sometimes those acts injure them. Just because it happens in the wild doesn’t mean they don’t sustain injuries from any of those events lmao
J
And yet everyone lives.. pray for his “serious” injury please
F
Why did you quote “serious”? I didn’t say anything about serious injuries.
S
Cats will hide injuries as a self defense mechanism
S
Cats will hide their injuries in case we need to read it again.
J
🤌Soooo, lemme get this right…Yall think the 700lb Lion that fights to the death with 800lb prey, falls out of trees routinely, and takes hyena bites to the face is hurt from a 10ft drop?..hmm, interesting
M
Very heavy animals are more likely to get hurt from a fall.
J
Says that guy..
M
It kind of looks like it but you gotta remember that’s a fucking cat at the end of the day. It’s totally fine.
D
Bone strength etc doesn’t scale proportionally with weight. King Kong would have basically crumpled and imploded under their own body mass were they real.
M
It’s landing weird because the truck was in motion. It looks weird to us from this angle. This is not a crazy jump for that lion to make.
E
Asphalt is a lot harder than dirt
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V
King Kong is a fictional entity, why do you care what people refer to it as?
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C
You’re the pedantic numpty that brought it up. You don’t get to Uno Reverse your way out of this.
V
Where do you see me correcting pronouns?
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V
I care about your pointless interjection not about King Kong’s pronoun.
B
Imagine being so fucking lame that you take the time to make a comment suggesting pronouns for a fucking kaiju.
P
Square cube law, as you increase in size your volume/mass will increase much faster than your surface area. Smaller cats are pretty much immune to fall damage but the bigger ones are still very vulnerable. You can pick up a spider in your yard and drop it from space and it’ll be fine, but a tarantula will get absolutely annihilated if it falls off a chair.
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