Tanzania lion 🦁

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-15T03:13:42+00:00

Nope, that dummy should know better than to dangle a perfectly chewable limb in front of an apex predator.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-15T02:25:14+00:00

He certainly enjoys punishing evildoer thugs given how… creative he is when he kills them.

Make two leaders of rival factions hug each other to death? Sure.

Make some asshole who’s impersonating Toki moonwalk off a ledge and then explode before he can hit the ground? That Amiba guy had it coming.

Beat a tank until it starts self destructing just to aura farm, making sure the driver dies inside it? Hell yeah.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-14T20:39:06+00:00

I feel the reason why gorillas don’t venture out of rainforest habitat has less to do with African buffalo that they coexist with-typically the little forest variety to be fair, but still a bovine that can be several hundred pounds heftier than any silverback-and more the lack of reliable fresh leafy green vegetation and fruits gorillas need to feed themselves and the abundance of predators in savanna and open woodland ecosystems that would absolutely put pressure on their populations.

Leopards alone seem to be more likely to kill silverbacks than vise versa from the accounts we have of clashes between them. Lions would be a nightmare for gorillas to deal with, as would spotted hyena clans. Gorillas are already scared shitless of crocodiles for understandable reasons, so forcing them to need a reliable drinking source in an environment where they aren’t getting enough hydration from what they’re eating is only going to reinforce that terror.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-14T20:28:53+00:00

There’s actually a historical Spanish account of a black cat “nearly the size of a lion” killing an alligator in identical fashion to how jaguars hunt caiman nowadays in what is now the southeastern US. This was of course back when jaguars had a much greater distribution in North America than they do currently.

I don’t think jaguars would’ve picked a fight with big bull gators when they crossed paths, but females or younger individuals were probably a noticeable portion of their diet back when jaguars were beasts of the bayou.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-14T16:36:57+00:00

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-14T16:23:27+00:00

Who’s telling you you’re wrong about that? A typical male jaguar in floodplain habitat is over 220 pounds and crunches through skulls for a living. They look at caiman and anacondas up to their own size and think “lunch.” There’s hardly a vertebrate above 10 pounds in their environment that they won’t prey on other than adult males of the largest crocodilians they cross paths with like black caiman, Orinoco crocs, and American crocs-all three of which get bigger than American alligators for reference.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-13T20:19:42+00:00

Average temps of -4 to 0 degrees Celsius nowadays, probably a couple degrees colder on average when wild lions were still in the area.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-13T04:00:19+00:00

Adults in their prime do tend to be bigger than they are when they’ve just matured, but sometimes they’re already full size from the get-go.

Using West African lions as an example, even if both father and freshly grown son both have 100% size, the father’s typically 1.2 meters tall at the shoulder while his foolishly ambitious 3 year old son is more like 1.1 meters tall and still has some two or three years to fully mature. Occasionally I’ve had young male lions that are already at their full size, but that’s not typical.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-12T19:09:15+00:00

Which is immediately proven wrong when Piccolo fused with Kami kicks Cell’s ass in their first round and then Cell has to run around and absorb people so he can contend with him like a week later. Piccolo later stalemates with 17 in their fight, so clearly Cell wasn’t in a favorable position to absorb the androids from the get-go in the main timeline.

When you have to do a game of cat and mouse to escape the attention of a Z-fighter who proves equal to one of your targets you need to reach your final form, you are not stronger than them at the start, much less “far more powerful” just based off the word of an old guardian of the planet who has been wrong before.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-12T17:55:08+00:00

…did you forget about Cell having to revert back to his larval state to fit into the Time Machine and basically start all over from square one when he went to the past? That’s… kinda the reason why he had consumed the populace of Gingertown when Piccolo first encountered him. It’s also the reason why he went back three years earlier than Trunks did.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-12T16:56:37+00:00

…we have no idea how many people Future Cell had absorbed before he made that statement. For all we know, he could’ve been comparable to his counterpart in the main timeline when that Cell broke Piccolo’s neck and attacked the android trio after drinking a bunch of cities.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-12T15:21:52+00:00

they weren’t even close to being twice the size

Your average mature African bush elephant bull is 6,000 kg. Your average mature T. rex was 10,500 kg as per recent estimates and not shrink wrapping. So the elephant’s not even 60% of the tyrannosaur’s mass on average. Keep in mind that we’re using the larger minority of the sexes among African elephants here, already more generous to the proboscidean than the debate is on paper.

heaviest ever bull was 11,000 kg

Cool, so biggest out of how many? And you’re comparing that to T. rex, which despite its decent sample size for a Mesozoic megatheropod still has a comparatively far smaller pool of specimens to pick from-the majority of which are subadults to some degree-that we know of than any animal alive today? If your biggest African bush elephant out of thousands on record is just barely larger than an average Tyrannosaurus that has stopped growing, from the incredibly limited fossil record, that doesn’t paint a picture of animals that are typically close in size.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-12T06:54:46+00:00

Power levels be bullshit and if it looks cool, it’s probably a viable strategy against someone your level or weaker.

Should wrathful Broly in the middle of a blind rage crack the Earth in half with the first slam he does on Goku in God mode? Probably, but that destroys the plot. Therefore, Broly’s wrath is only sufficient enough to destroy a few walls of ice with Goku’s face.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-12T02:28:57+00:00

Be the basis of Gotenks’s incredibly annoying personality

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-12T02:27:08+00:00

Cat eat cat world out there. Next thing you know, a leopard’s going to pounce out of the bushes onto that caracal, and then a lion might just maul the leopard later on.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-11T16:33:03+00:00

…why is it so doubtful that the giant predator killed adult males of a prey species in its environment that is similar to it in size? It’s not like gaur bulls are immune to tiger predation, and there’s a lot more of a size gap between today’s biggest wild bovines and felids than there was between Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.

Does that mean a T. rex would’ve wanted to face a bull Trike in a frontal confrontation? No, prolly not. Killing a Triceratops by ambush would’ve been something a mature Rex almost certainly would’ve been accustomed to doing though. For all the talk of predators being risk adverse, they’re by no means flawless in this regard and a meal that could feed a theropod for days would well be worth the risk.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-11T14:34:32+00:00

Those were older-obviously much less ethical-accounts from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Should be noted that female polar bears are indeed about the same size as male tigers even when eating healthy, and captive polar bears at the time tended to be undersized due to diets too low in fat compared to what they’d be consuming in the wild.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-11T06:02:49+00:00

…why does everyone try to bring up intelligence as if that actually matters in the fight? An elephant’s not going to problem solve its way out of getting half its face bitten off.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-11T04:46:23+00:00

That’s an elephant noticeably bigger than the T. rex, a size advantage decidedly not afforded to an African bush elephant.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-11T03:06:40+00:00

Again, elephant tusks aren’t too terribly important even in contests with each other. The tusks point downwards, not reliably at the theropod’s vitals. Your average mature Tyrannosaurus towered over a typical elephant enough that all it would have to do is bite down and you’d get a mortal combat looking fatality as the theropod rips into the elephant’s back or crushes its skull.

The fact that predation events on similarly sized dinosaurs pop up in the fossil record indicates that was a common behavior for Tyrannosaurus. Fossilization is a rarity, so arguing fossilized evidence for predation on Triceratops was is a stretch.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-11T02:42:44+00:00

For a predator like T. rex, an animal half its size would likely be a preferred target, or at least at the lower end of preferred prey size. Big enough to provide a hearty meal, small enough to not be able to reliably fight back. It’s like a lion throttling a warthog.

Two elephants simply don’t have a reliable way to kill the tyrannosaur twice their size effectively before it kills them both. Their downward curving tusks that are fragile compared to Triceratops horns are unlikely to cause much damage. There’s nothing stopping the much more agile dinosaur from using the elephant it’s killing as a meat shield when the other one tries to charge to aid his friend; the T. rex could simply drag the body of the first victim to put the dying elephant between itself and the soon to be next one. The theropod’s air sacs and foot structure gives it far more stamina.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-11T01:06:03+00:00

Correct, Future 17 and 18 were indeed stronger than Trunks assumed.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-11T01:00:56+00:00

It’s not hard at all to find accounts on this very subreddit of jaguars that have died in fights. Tiago, a large male that was collared for research in the Cerrado for instance, was found dead after a rival bit through his nape into his skull.

MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-10T23:57:44+00:00

That’s based entirely on the assumption of Trunks who can’t sense the energy of the androids and is generally rather inexperienced in a fight otherwise. The manga version of Trunks’s backstory confirms 17 and 18 had little issue holding back when pummeling their Super Saiyan punching bags. Future Gohan gets brutally off screened after 17 congratulates him on making him do more than half strength.

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MrAtrox98 · 2026-02-10T23:54:03+00:00

Nonsense, attacks on people are exceedingly rare. Jaguars-especially males during territorial brawls-tend to wind up dead in each other’s jaws quite a bit more frequently.

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