Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 21, 2007
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Transcript:
"Looks like the lions took my cousin Lou from the back of the herd last week and ate him." "Why do zebras hang out in herds if all they do when lions attack is stand around and stare at the guy being dragged off?" "Ohhh... we do a lot more than that." "What do you do?" "We wave goodbye."
You see that on nature documentaries. Zebras have hooves that they can use to lash out at their attackers, and if they had a more altruistic nature and exercised “strength in numbers” they could kick some serious leonine butt. In an old National Geographic article I read how a lioness was chasing down a zebra which kicked her in the face and broke her jaw, leading her to die from starvation.