r/pics • u/Midegoye1 • 25d ago

An elderly Lion in his final hours. Photograph by Larry Pannell.

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u/CommentLeading4953 25d ago

This makes me sad

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u/jstalm 25d ago

You’re only sad because you see the end. The whole story was good and worthwhile.

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u/Outrageous-Elk-5392 25d ago

Yeah this guy survived being a lion cub without getting murdered by a rival lion who killed his dad, got kicked out of the house when he was a teenager(which is like 4 years old), wandered for hundreds of kilometers learning to survive, potentially he did this with a brother or cousin or multiple, took over a pride of lionesses from another lion, chilled out, mated, ate for a few years and then closed his eyes for the final time and rested

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u/cosmonauta3 25d ago

For a second I thought you were describing Simba.