The first hour and 15 minutes were depressing and hard to swallow, especially one event that took place midway but the end left me satisfied. Seeing the mother join the rest of the lioness pride brought a smile to my face knowing her cub would be that much safer.
Overall I gave it a 10/10 because I'm such a huge cat lover(domestic and wild).
Documentaries of animals in the wild aren't for everyone. This one was very enjoyable, touching as well as sad at times. The point is to give humans a small view of what actually happens in the wild. I love cats too, but I don't look for a Nat Geo documentary for enjoyment, but as an educational tool. Like it or not, big cats are born killers. What I don't like is when people think they can domesticate wild animals.
sharewhy would the cub be any safer?shouldnt they go and live with the males? so he would probably be killed.or maybe im missing something.
i liked the movie too,something it made me realize was that what a capable animal tiger is.
I'm not sure if you're being facetious or not but you really don't think the cub won't be even a smidgeon safer with a pride of 6 or 7 lionesses versus just one(his mother)? I don't know if you watch documentaries on big cats frequently but female lions, when they stick together, can be very aggressive & intimidating towards one or two male lions, especially when it's to protect a young cub.
shareThe above poster was merely pointing out the fact that lionesses from rival clans allow males to kill off the young of "enemy" alphas. Throughout the history of the world, male cats have engaged in infanticide to keep their bloodline going, and to eliminate any trace of another's. Just because Silver Eye accepted Ma di Tau doesn't mean the males are going to accept the lion cub. In all likelihood, he won't outlast the remainder of the filmmakers' voyage home.
shareActually the male cub did survive.
When we started this stint two females and two sub adults (the female we called Iris, because she has a black fleck coming out of the iris in her eye) had just killed a baby elephant. They live in Middle Duba and are the bigger lions in the Tsaro pride. North of there we came across Silver Eye and two females and two sub adults, ironically the grown up Ma di Tau male cub is one of them from what we can see. Silver Eye is amazing. Her eye is worse, but she still hunts well, often leading the chase. She isn’t however getting on well with the females (her sisters) of the other sub groups. And then there is Ma di Tau, and surprisingly she has three new cubs of about 6-months old.