Enigma to the scientific world?

1.) It happened 8 years ago, why bring it up now?

2.) The scientist quoted in the article was not in the least bit baffled.

"Cases of lionesses showing maternal affection for animals they would normally see as prey are not unprecedented", conservationist Daphne Sheldrick said, "Lions, like all the other species, including human beings, have this kind of feelings for babies "

3.) What exactly do you think it proves? And why?

How can an ancient scripture predict some thing that today baffles scientist. We have a very good understanding of the nature between lions and prey.

As a pet owner, I can vouch for the nature of my cats - they don't kill my pet mice even when they are feeding from the same plate or they are still hungry, my cats also still go and hunt outdoors - I've had to clear away the dead things from my porch many a time. The mice are now several generations now and not one has ever been attacked by my cats.

Of course, the bible is obviously right and my cats are obviously "abominations unto the lord" or some other bullcrap for not acting naturally.

Never taken a formal biology or psychology class have you? Whenever I see one of these "science can't explain it" posts from theists, I know I'm about to read a post from a scientific illiterate. And no, I don't respect illiteracy and ignorance. I came from a poor family and managed to earn a bachelor's and three master's degrees, because unlike theists, I know that studying the Bible would never have produced the computer you type on.

First of all, if you would like me to catalog all the outright scientific errors in the Bible, we could be here for months.

Secondly, cross-species adoption is unusual, but not the rare occurrence you seem to think it is. At the first link below you can see cross species-adoption from a cat to it's natural prey, baby bunnies. It includes some explanation of the phenomenon if you care.

The second link is a site specializing in cross-species adoptions.

Short answer, like most theists, you don't know what you are talking about and are just aping some bullshit apologetics.

Oh please! And what happened to the calf? Have your followed up on the complete story?

The explanation is simple; The media love to anthropomorphise animal stories and attribute motives to their actions based on human emotions.

Lionesses often bring back live game. It is their instinct - the victims are for the cubs of the pride to practise their hunting and killing skill on. Which is what happened to the calves in this case, only that part of the story went unreported in most versions.

Trying to see this as confirmation of an ancient 'prophesy', that was probably allegorical in any case, is really a "lack of intellect and failure to reason you own destiny whether you a believer or not."

try googling 'Confirmation bias'!

Exceptional behavior in all sorts of animals is hardly unknown...as the story points out, various individuals of a number of species have 'adopted' members of others...especially females who have recently lost their own young. If the maternal instinct can override self-preservation altogether, it's hardly surprising it can do so for the urge to hunt...at least to a point. If food became scarce, I'm not so certain of that onyx's continued existence. After all, there are plenty of examples of exceptional behaviour in the other direction too...mothers abandoning or even killing their own young.

Can't you get to the point. Animals "adopt" Other animals a lot. Look on u tube dog cats pigs you name it if it suckles its you it will feed the young of others, at least till it gets hungry. Even you suckled a cows milk, sure it came from a bottle but you drank it. So called Christians with half baked ideas and delusions of superiority provide more reasons to doubt Gods love then embrace it.

This is not an enigma.

Nature is not perfect. There have been many documented cases of animals 'adopting' the young of others, and attempting to raise it.

In the case of this lioness, if it is indeed the one I have heard about the most, she had recently lost her own cubs and was attempting to 'replace' them. This could hint towards a sort of mental trauma that affected her because of the death of her children.

Unusual animal companion-ships occur all the time. Like the cat that befriended a raven, or the horse that befriended a duck. There was even a case where a swan adopted a small, swan-shaped boat as his life-partner.

It is not biblical, it just happens.

Such match-ups are watched very closely because the true nature of the animals is never too far behind.

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Didn't read anything except your intial question.... Simply put.

The AIDS virus.