Lioness kills mate at zoo

[F_Marturana]

Lioness at Indianapolis Zoo kills her longtime mate

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Zoo is trying to determine why a lioness killed her mate. The zoo said Friday that an adult female, Zuri, attacked 10-year-old male Nyack in their outdoor yard Monday before the zoo opened for the day. The zoo says the two had been housed together for eight...

local21news.com

This is peculiar to me. Lions don’t act that way in the wild. Apparently lionesses might attack a male from a different pride, but never mortally.

 

[Cruciferi]

Well, apparently, she’d had enough of him

 

[F_Marturana]

Who knows. I’m glad it happened before opening. That would have been a frightening sight.

The article states that they attempted to separate the lions. I guess from a distance? Who would get in between two fighting lions.

 

[Cruciferi]

Trank both of them.

 

[mVitus]

Well, apparently, she’d had enough of him

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[Lee1]

Sounds as though poor old Leo got a roar deal.

Must be dangerous lots of lions living together, maybe that’s why they say that “Pride comes before a fall.”

 

[Mary888]

Animals at zoo suffer. They don’t live as God intended them to live. Some of them hurt themselves. It’s a sign of depression imho.

 

[F_Marturana]

I think that’s true.

My husband said that he read the lioness was captured from the wild, the lion was born in captivity and was generally pretty docile.