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Pet lion escapes influencer’s home in Thailand, injures two, including 11-year-old boy (www.malaymail.com)
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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You can never appreciate what a lion is like in an image or video.

They are fucking huge and very, very fit. It's like wolves. You interact with them in real life and realise they're about 50% bigger than you imagined.

"Oh, this is why my guide has a .458 and not a .308..."

severe injuries to his right hip after being pawed and bitten, and remains hospitalised.

A very lucky 11-year old. Hopefully recovery it excellent and he's got a dope story to tell for the rest of his life 👍

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

house cats wouldn’t need to be much bigger to be very dangerous to humans

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right!? I've always thought about that. My beloved kitty is a total psychopath. I can only imagine being a villager in ancient times, somewhere in the big cats range. Every night the kitty comes out to play. Fucking terrifying.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The shit I've seen my cats do to rodents... Like, I want to call the cops or something but just go inside, stoicly hiding my fear.

Thirty minutes later, one's on my lap purring...

Good kitty...

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean dangerous is a scale, but not really.

Cougars are the only smaller type of cat that could be "dangerous" in the sense you're going from scratches to actual chunks of skin coming out and a chance of death and that's going to be 5x more mass than a house cat.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Cougars are closer to 10x the weight of a house cat. Based on the square-cube law, that makes a cougar only about twice as big as a house cat in any given dimension. Going off the numbers on Wikipedia and the cat lying beside me, it checks out.

It's kind of terrifying the difference 2^3^ makes.