• one of my favourite ever lion studies was looking at masculinized females in botswana, and one of the study lionesses was called SaF05

    SaF05 had a mostly complete light mane, mated with both males and females, roared and scent-marked in a fashion associated with males, however acted socially as a female when it came to hunting and patrolling

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    revolutionary

  • Did they name the lion Sapho on purpose?

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