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Wholesome Lion Fact: Adult Lion Pretends Hurt By Cub Bites

This image is a screenshot of a Tumblr post featuring a real wildlife photograph of an adult male lion lying on savanna grass, with two young lion cubs playfully biting the adult lion's body. The adult lion has its mouth open wide, dramatically reacting as if he is hurt by the small cub bites. Under the photograph, Tumblr user stunningpicture explains that adult lions pretend to be hurt by their young's bites to encourage the cubs during play and practice, and adds that this sweet fact put the biggest smile on their face. The original post accumulated over 216,000 notes on Tumblr.
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Lions pretend to be hurt by the bites of their young to encourage them. this put the biggest smile on my face

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This image is a screenshot of a Tumblr post featuring a real wildlife photograph of an adult male lion lying on savanna grass, with two young lion cubs playfully biting the adult lion's body. The adult lion has its mouth open wide, dramatically reacting as if he is hurt by the small cub bites. Under the photograph, Tumblr user stunningpicture explains that adult lions pretend to be hurt by their young's bites to encourage the cubs during play and practice, and adds that this sweet fact put the biggest smile on their face. The original post accumulated over 216,000 notes on Tumblr.

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The original wildlife photograph is an uncredited real wildlife shot, the text post originated on the Tumblr platform, and this screenshot was later reposted to X.com (formerly Twitter) by the WholesomeMeme account as shared wholesome content.

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