Wanna know what really fucks me up??? Like. I remember being in school and learning about animals and where they come from and all that shit, or going to the zoo or something as a kid. And like. People are always so fucking blown away that lions Live On The Continent Of Africa. So fucked up about it. Like, imagine you just walked out of your fucking house one day and there was a lion there??? Absurd! How do the people in Africa do it! They must populate the place like squirrels! How is that possible! Like that was always the fucking group mentality when this was going on. People were so tripped out that some people live in Lion Territory, because lions are Fucking Scary. People would be like, ‘I’m so glad the only Lions around here are safe in the zoos’. But you know what??? You know what fucks me up??? Mountain Lions. That’s just….a whole ass fucking lion living freely in North America. Roaming the fucking lands. That’s a literal goddamn lion. We call them lions because they are fucking lions. But apparently because they aren’t Lions™ they’re supposed to be less scary to us??? You know what a fucking mountain lion is??? It’s a LITERAL FUCKING LION that has adapted to a DEBATEATLY MORE DANGEROUS TERRAIN. Like fucking Lions™ can hide around in tall grass and shit, sure, it’s terrifying, but mountain lions???? HIDING IN DARK FORRESTS AND HILLSIDES AND STEEP SLOPES AND UP HIGH IN THE TREES TO THE POINT YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE THEM??? Fuck off!!!! Like Lions™ can be fucking killing machines but at least they’re fucking up front about it!!! A mountain lion is just gonna fucking mug you in a dark alley or some shit!!!! Why are people in North America just. Straight up IGNORING the fact we have Goddamn lions RIGHT HERE. WHY. WHY DO WE DO THAT. THEY’RE LIONS. WHA TTHE FUCK.
96% of the people on this post missed my POINT which was not ‘I am afraid of mountain lions’ but was in fact ‘why do we instinctively sensationalize life in other countries and make them seem terrifying when we ourselves are completely numb and normalized to similar things in our own country that seem equally terrifying on paper’
I knew a girl from Australia who was like “oh yeah we have kangaroos everywhere” and was blown away by deer it was surreal
I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie
Ok but the other one is purring so hard
If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead
Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) – they are still classified as Lesser Cats.
Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.
“I work for a county government. They work closely with the county animal shelter, and some kittens and cats are sent to us because we get so much traffic from the public, hopefully someone will see a kitty and adopt! In the meantime, they can socialize with the employees to get used to humans. So far over 100 cats have been adopted.” –Loocylooo
Hang on, I have to go quit my job and become a kitten librarian.
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