I don't think it is a individual lion thing, other than when a young male gets kick out of the area and is forced into less than ideal place. I think it is a generational thing, aggregated experiences and learned over time.
If I were to make a semi informed guess. I would say this graph shows a dynamic that has resulted in lions (who are territorial) have been forced into closer proximity with areas of higher human traffic, and they have become desensitized to humans and the urban interface resulting in more...
I am not sure it is possible to critically think without one. How else do you synthesize multiple streams of information into coherent thoughts of your own?
Now that said I think much of society today just parrots back what they have heard anyway, so what do I know....
One morning I bumped into a warden at a trailhead as I was coming off stand in northcentral MN back in about 2008, and he asked me if I wanted the two stands he had just taken down that had been illegally left on the public. They were heavy as hell, so I declined, but had they been decent I...
It is tough to fight their nature. They evolved to build a den. With my lab I just encouraged him to pick a spot out of the way and stick with it. I even helped him make it better, and once he had his spot, he focused his digging there. YMMV...
Interesting read. I am not 100% sure where I stand on the idea though. I have seen a lot of death, and there are two deaths that hit me harder than any others, a 5 month old girl in AFG in 2005 and my last dog Jack. I cannot tell you why, but they did. I have lost friends, grandparents, seen...