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[sciencesquid]

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[sciencesquid]

Lions? Really? [Red pandas, he can understand. They're very endearing. But lions?] Is it because of their mane?

[heyunderoos]

I mean, they're cool! [Be unsurprised a teenage boy likes a 'Cool' animal.] Their hierarchy is really interesting to read about too.

[sciencesquid]

[Otto has never considered lions to be cool. Jaguars, sure. Maybe even tigers. But the hierarchy thing, at least, has him reconsider the potential.]

Oh, you mean how they function within their pride?

[heyunderoos]

They're not as cool as hyenas, but they're pretty cool structurally I mean. The prides can pretty much have a male lion around, or it's just all the female lions scaring the male ones off. Their gender binary is also kinda interesting since some lionesses can veer into looking male with the manes whilst actually being physically female. Like it doesn't happen often but it's cool to read about. [Surprise, he has strong opinions about lions.]

[sciencesquid]

Really? I didn't know that. Do these lionesses still act typically female in every other way?

[Otto's very relieved to find out that Peter's got more interests than just Spider-Man, so he's happy to encourage this sort of thing.]

[heyunderoos]

Some of them take on like more typically male behavior for the species, roaring, defending the other lionesses, and being maybe more aggressive at times.

I was reading an article about like five lionesses scientists managed to like observe, so I guess its on the forefront of my mind.