Baboon with lion cub

[Beringia]

https://www.latestsightings.com/single-post/2020/02/02/Baboon-Adopts-and-Grooms-Lion-Cub-Kruger-Kurt-Safari


(I don't know how this is going to work out. The baby needs milk).

[Phoenix61]

1. You have to wonder how she ended up with it.

She obviously didn’t fight it’s mother to get it. Maybe abandoned? Or mother killed by poachers? Amazing that the baboon doesn’t seem to care it’s not a baby baboon.

[Beringia]

2. I wondered that too, maybe the mother was off hunting

I think there is lion hunting in Kruger Natl Park too.

[Duppers]

3. 😢 The cub did not make it.

From bottom of link.

[Beringia]

4. Ya, sad

I wouldn't have posted if I knew he was dead. I was just taken with seeing them together.

[Duppers]

5. 'Tis ok. I wasn't offended.

Baboons are usually meanest of primates; I rank them up there with human in cruelty.
'Course I'm not any kind of authority, just an avid wildlife series viewer. Lions and baboons are often found in the same territory. I've seen so many nature series and videos that it's gotten to the point when I see lions hunting I'm rooting for them to kill the baboons. Or I'd take a hit on "Donny Douchebag’ or ‘Short Bus’." Just for payback.