Lions are referred to as the king of the jungle but don't live in jungles, amirite?

They also don't like hanging out with meerkats and warthogs.

by jordipredovic 5 months ago

Sometimes they could make an exception. If they met as a cub or something.

by Own_Letterhead 5 months ago

Leopards play nicely with their prey before killing them, maybe lions do the same

by kari71 5 months ago

What?! I saw the documentary, I know that's not true.

by Difficult_Error 5 months ago

The word jungle originates from the Sanskrit word jaṅgala (जङ्गल), meaning rough and arid, which describes the Savannah perfectly.

by Vrunolfsson 5 months ago

Also, in a lot of Indian languages, Savannah, forest, jungle are all just jungles. And Indian lions live in jungles. Just not the same habitat as typical African documentaries.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Africa has pretty diverse documentaries

by Anonymous 5 months ago

of course. I just meant to talk about typical lion Savannah one.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

You just answered my next question without me even asking it lol. Ty

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Another L for the English language.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

That doesn't change the fact that they're clearly different things in reality

by Anonymous 5 months ago

But what about in unreality?

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Maybe different. Idk.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

The iconic "king of the jungle" line predates the word "Jungle" becoming a specific biome in English, that's a relatively recent change.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

To be fair, lions do. It's just not the lions ppl typically think of.

by hanehilbert 5 months ago

That's not how language works

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Then how does it work if you know so much better?

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Because it's an extremely famous and very old colloquialism, you'll have an easier time convincing Broadway theatres to standardise Shakespeare into Lolcat.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Yeah well that doesn't make it any closer to being right

by Anonymous 5 months ago

True. But that's just in the English language. Jungle means rainforest in English, not in other languages. Jungle in most Indian languages means a dry arid forest.

by Vrunolfsson 5 months ago

Ok sorry yeah that makes sense

by Anonymous 5 months ago

I grew up in South Africa and always was puzzled by that. They like open Savannah but king of the Savannah. However I also grew up around Indian people who told me the word originally meant rough dry tangled place. Which is closer to the bush you find a lion in. The English word evolved to mean the rainforest and not the original bush Savannah that the lion actually likes.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

They have a really good pr team

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Puuur team 🦁

by ardith94 5 months ago

Tigers. Tigers are the one to watch out for.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

You don't find many tigers depicted in the snow in children's books either.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

A tiger? In Africa?

by Assuntarunolfss 5 months ago

You should see the hole in my mosquito net!

by Anonymous 5 months ago

They used to. Lions used to roam most of the planet.

by Anitajones 5 months ago

The tigers ate them

by Anonymous 5 months ago

But they got lions and tigers only in Kenya

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Forget Norway!

by Anonymous 5 months ago

If tigers are what you call humans, then sure.

by Anitajones 5 months ago

I wonder what lion tastes like

by hanehilbert 5 months ago

Why do lions get to be the king of the jungle when the lioness does all the hunting?

by Anonymous 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure the word "Lions" represents the whole species, despite Female Ones being called Lionesses

by Anonymous 5 months ago

because they're the queens of the jungle.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Do you think a king does the hard work, or do you think kings get to lay around most of the time delegating the hard work to others. If you aren't sitting on your ass most of the day, you are not a king.

by Anitajones 5 months ago

does the king grow crops?

by Jschroeder 5 months ago

That's just like, your opinion man.

by Feilrylan 5 months ago

He treats objects like women.

by Silver-Professor7324 5 months ago

Slumlords don't live in slums either

by Icy-Hat 5 months ago

King Charles is the King of Canada (among other countries) and doesn't live in Canada... 🤷‍♂️

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Lion King's working title was "King of the Jungle" until someone in the production pointed out that they don't live in jungles

by Anonymous 5 months ago

None of the trappings of a king either.

by Norris25 5 months ago

"King of the Savannah" sounds 100% cooler

by Anonymous 5 months ago

They told some guy they were king of the jungle but they were lion.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

and their government structure doesn't include monarchies.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

When were they claimed to be king of the jungle?

by Anonymous 5 months ago

This

by Anonymous 5 months ago

And American geographers. Calling South America a different continent when there isn't really a good reason for it (besides them being different parts of Pangea many many many many years ago).

by Anonymous 5 months ago

you don't think a distinction should be made between the regions called 'north america' and 'south america'? you don't understand why that's useful?

by GullibleTutor457 5 months ago

No how in what way

by Anonymous 5 months ago

well, for 1, the cultures and languages and environments between them is night and day. also because panama is so insanely small that they're barely connected, and as such it was deemed appropriate to "separate" the continents because they're distinctly different land masses. it's like saying europe and africa, or africa and asia, are the same continent because a small country equivalent to a strip of land (comparatively) connects them.

by Jschroeder 5 months ago

lots of english in the north, not so much in the south. also a fair bit of french. portugese is just as popular as spanish down there. not much in the north. mexico's spanish is very different than latin, although intelligible (in a similar way germanic, or some arabic/turkic languages are.) oceania is pretty straightforward. it's not a continent, it's a region consisting of australia and surrounding islands. australia is the continent that resides in oceania.

by Jschroeder 5 months ago

Also, it still stands that there's a lot of Spanish that gets spoken throughout pretty much all of America, with other languages like English, Portugese and Dutch spoken in certain places too. Europe has much more language variety and much more disconnection language-wise, but it's still considered one continent. And the landmass argument doesn't work either because Europe and Asia are connected and the Americas were connected until someone made the Panama canal. So yeah those arguments don't work either.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

So Europe and Asia shouldn't have any distinction either?

by Anonymous 5 months ago

That's the language of colonialist white people.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Yeah it's dumb when people say that. They clearly live in the savannah.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

The word jungle comes to English from Sanskrit via Hindi. And in those languages, a Savannah is also a jungle. In fact, all forests are called jungles in Hindi.

by Vrunolfsson 5 months ago