The story of “The Bad Lion: by Toni Bentley was interesting because it was so human. The way the bad lion acted was the way a human criminal rapist would act. I have never heard of a lion that would do things for pleasure like that or any animal really. During about the first two pages I liked the lion. I saw him as this damaged creature that was probably nearing the end of his life and just wanted to be left alone with his pride. But then when he started attacking the lioness I was confused; I thought at first that the lioness was apart of his pride and I could not figure out what was going on.
Then when Alfie said that he was evil or Satan as they called him I began to feel anger towards this creature. I should not feel anger towards an animal because animals are not supposed to make decisions like human. They are supposed to do everything for survival, but this lion was raping and killing lionesses for pleasure. I wish scientist would do research on this lion so that they would know what is different about this lion that affects his behavior so drastically.
One other thing that I found interesting was the way his brother followed his every command. The brother lion probably had no comprehension as to why this lion was doing the things that he was doing yet he naturally followed along. I see it as the brother was doing what nature intended which is to follow the alpha male while the bad lion was going against nature, which then affected the behavior of the brother lion.
One aspect that I really ponder is where were the female lions of their pride during all of this. At the beginning of the essay Alfie talked about how the females would always do the hunting and the males would just ways. So did the females watch from a distance while the males did their “hunting”? The whole situation is just baffling and disturbing.
Another thing that I found disturbing was how these people just sit there and watch all of this happen. I have seen shows before about wild life and they get in fights and kill each other while people are filming. I am not a big fan of that, I think that it is great to study animal behavior but I do not understand why people need to film animals killing each other. Sure, it may be interesting to many people; but it is no different then watching humans doing the same thing.
Overall, this is the most interesting essay that we have read so far. When I finished reading it I wanted more. There could be so many more stories about the life of the Bad Lion. It is one of those situations where I know I should not want to read about the terrible thing this lion is capable of, but I cannot help myself. It would also be interesting to see when the lion finally meets his match. I felt like this animal has the capacity to do much more evil things than just killing lionesses for pleasure. I could see him attacking other animals, maybe female, maybe not, for the same purposes. He would not do it for food or survival but for pleasure.
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