And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The "maneaters" of Tsavo were reported to "lick" the skin off the railroad workers, to get the blood. The author of "Born Free" wrote how the lions would bite a gut, close its short front teeth between the fangs around the poo filled intestine and squeeze the "bad stuff" out while sucking in the gut like spaghetti. Nature is not nice.
Always figured cats got their rough tongues to better to groom the blood and meat off their coats.
ReplyDeleteNope.
ReplyDeleteIt's to get the last bits of flesh off the bones of their prey.
Lions are not so much the fastidious groomers housecats are.
But calories = survival.
peel the entire hide right off'n ye
ReplyDeleteThe "maneaters" of Tsavo were reported to "lick" the skin off the railroad workers, to get the blood.
ReplyDeleteThe author of "Born Free" wrote how the lions would bite a gut, close its short front teeth between the fangs around the poo filled intestine and squeeze the "bad stuff" out while sucking in the gut like spaghetti. Nature is not nice.