Things I'd Rather Not Know From Animal Planet

Just to disturb you.

The Lion King was a box office hit and personally, one of my favorite animated feature films. It is brilliant. A pig and a mir cat are friends... who comes up with this stuff? Of coarse, Disney spared no expense in making this movie. They actually brought live lions into the cartoonist's studio so they could make the movements and look of the animals as realistic as possible. And as for the characters... they consulted with zoologist to determine animal behavior.

Now, I learned from Animal Planet what Disney didn't tell us. For instance, in a pride (group) of lions, there is always only one full grown male. The strongest survives and claims the females. Each pride has mulitple females. They do all the hunting. This, of coarse, explains the plot of the movie. Mufasa (Dad Lion) fights with Scar (brother) for control of the pride at first. And at the end Simba (son) must fight Scar for control of the pride. But this also reveals some very disturbing things.

1. Simba's love interest (Nala) is the daughter of one of the female lions of the pride. But there is only one male. So Mufasa is the father of all children in the pride. Simba likes his sister. Gross.
2. It doesn't matter if Simba likes his sister Nala, because the Alpha Male of the Pride mates with all members of the pride. So Simba will not only mate with his love interest, but fights Scar to mate with his own mother and Nala's mother.
3. This also brings to light that while Simba is away singing with the pig and the cat, Scar is mating with the females.
4. The females of the pack hunt so it explains why Mufasa has so much time on his hands to teach Simba Buddhism and why Simba, Mufasa, and Scar are all Deadbeat Dads.
5. And finally, the principle remains that "there can be only one male." So if Mufasa hadn't been killed and had raised Simba. He would eventually have to kill Simba, have Simba kill him, or banish him from the pride anyway.

Ah, the Circle of Life!