Wrong animal

[PennLady]

So for all of us who've been writing about werewolves, it appears we were wrong.

So... the wolves had a better PR campaign? Or maybe the lions did, blaming on wolves?

 

[litfan10]

The three little pigs who live FAR from Africa are breathing a sigh of relief!

 

[3113]

So for all of us who've been writing about werewolves, it appears we were wrong.

This is all well and good if one is in Africa, but last I looked there were no lions in Transylvania. The "children of the night" were all canines.

Edited to add: Also, shouting "Werelion!" just makes people look at you funny and say, "There lion!" while pointing towards the zoo. It just doesn't have the Werewolf ring to it.

 

[stephen55]

So, wandering around the Serengeti after the sun goes down is dangerous.

http://www.lionwallpapers.com/bulkupload/wallpapers/Adult%20Lions/angry-lions-wallpaper.jpg

Who would have thought?

And wandering around the Serengeti after sundown when there is no moonlight is even more dangerous.

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/buffalo-lion-1.jpg
This Cape Buffalo must have missed the memo.

 

[3113]

Just to add...click on the sleeping lion.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3393/3267923031_7f5ac2f4c5.jpg

 

[lovecraft68]

So Peter Stubb really thought he was a lion?

http://www.essortment.com/werewolves-lycanthropy-lore-myth-64798.html

 

[cfuhrer]

Edited to add: Also, shouting "Werelion!" just makes people look at you funny and say, "There lion!" while pointing towards the zoo. It just doesn't have the Werewolf ring to it.

If I had been drinking something it would have come out my nose!

 

[PennLady]

This is all well and good if one is in Africa, but last I looked there were no lions in Transylvania. The "children of the night" were all canines.

Edited to add: Also, shouting "Werelion!" just makes people look at you funny and say, "There lion!" while pointing towards the zoo. It just doesn't have the Werewolf ring to it.

Oh, you just stole that from Young Frankenstein.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Just to add...click on the sleeping lion.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3393/3267923031_7f5ac2f4c5.jpg

This version is more appropriate to Lit!

 

[3113]

Oh, you just stole that from Young Frankenstein.

Indeed. I only steal from the best

 

[R. Richard]

This is all well and good if one is in Africa, but last I looked there were no lions in Transylvania. The "children of the night" were all canines.

Edited to add: Also, shouting "Werelion!" just makes people look at you funny and say, "There lion!" while pointing towards the zoo. It just doesn't have the Werewolf ring to it.

As has already been pointed out, in the article posted by Lovecraft68, there were supposedly were lions. In meso America, the Maya people not only believed in were jaguars, they believed that their shamans could change themselves into jaguars at whim, no long waits for the full moon.
People, what were talking about is a Mayan religion. Please have a bit of respect.

 

[TE999]

So for all of us who've been writing about werewolves, it appears we were wrong.

So... the wolves had a better PR campaign? Or maybe the lions did, blaming on wolves?

A long, drawn out "Aroooooooo ... gark ... Aroooooo ..." echoing across the moors at dusk is lot's more scary than a full throated "Roarrr!"

Besides, Little Red Riding Hood would have been scared shitless by encountering a lion on the way to Grandma's house and then there would have been no story.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

A lion wouldn't have bothered to say "Hello, little girl. It would have just gobbled her down as an appetizer and then toddled on over to Granma's for the second course followed up by a light dessert of woodcutter. Great story, if you're the lion!

 

[3113]

A lion wouldn't have bothered to say "Hello, little girl. It would have just gobbled her down as an appetizer and then toddled on over to Granma's for the second course followed up by a light dessert of woodcutter. Great story, if you're the lion!

You forgot about taking a nap in-between. Lions, like all felines, enjoy their naps.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You forgot about taking a nap in-between. Lions, like all felines, enjoy their naps.

Lions most of all! I believe the norm is twenty-two hours of sleep per day. Sounds good to me . . .

 

[PennLady]

A lion wouldn't have bothered to say "Hello, little girl. It would have just gobbled her down as an appetizer and then toddled on over to Granma's for the second course followed up by a light dessert of woodcutter. Great story, if you're the lion!

Well, no. It's the lionesses that hunt. The lion would have just waited until a lioness showed up to deal with Red.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Not if he wasn't a pride male. Lions that are not attached to a pride, like have been kicked out by their mothers and the pride male, are quite competent hunters. cf photo above of the maned male taking out a cape buffalo.

 

[PennLady]

Not if he wasn't a pride male. Lions that are not attached to a pride, like have been kicked out by their mothers and the pride male, are quite competent hunters. cf photo above of the maned male taking out a cape buffalo.

There are way too many rules here...

 

[cfuhrer]

There are way too many rules here...

At least the canines were simple

 

[3113]

At least the canines were simple

Nah, they were getting complicated too. Just look at the Twilight and True Blood series.

 

[SweetWitch]

This version is more appropriate to Lit!

I found that oddly entertaining . . . sort of.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I found that oddly entertaining . . . sort of.

Well, that was the idea . . . sort of.

 

[TE999]

Speaking of wrong animals, check out this little jewel ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lagers-mistake-malnourished-monkey-alien.html

No wonder that woman was scared out of her wits.

 

[R. Richard]

Speaking of wrong animals, check out this little jewel ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lagers-mistake-malnourished-monkey-alien.html

No wonder that woman was scared out of her wits.

The beastie is obviously a loris, probably a loris tardigradus malabaricus, although I'm no expert. The real question here is the sex of the beastie. Are we dealing with Doris the loris or Boris the loris?

 

[Tricialen]

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Edited to add: Also, shouting "Werelion!" just makes people look at you funny and say, "There lion!" while pointing towards the zoo. It just doesn't have the Werewolf ring to it.

This is so funny..... and Bear....naughty Bear!