• Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    93·
    17 days ago

    does NOT even live in the jungle

    Fwiw, that’s definitely not a requirement. The King of Australia doesn’t live in Australia, either.

    • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
      10·
      17 days ago

      That’s why ‘von und zu’ exists in German. ‘von’ means ‘of House…’, and ‘zu’ basically means ‘resides in …’. So King von und zu Luxemburg would be King of house Luxemburg who also lives in Luxemburg

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
        4·
        17 days ago

        Interesting. So can someone be “von” multiple places? Charles von Australia und United Kingdom und Canada und New Zealand zu United Kingdom?

      • optional@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        17 days ago

        Incidentally, in German the lion also isn’t called king of the jungle, but king of the animals. But I don’t know if that means von animals or zu animals 🤔.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
      51·
      17 days ago

      Okay, this made me look up if Australia is still a commonwealth. It is, but who the fuck knew India still was? I’m not the only one who didn’t know, right?

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        17 days ago

        fwiw the word “commonwealth” is…essentially meaningless. If you hear someone say commonwealth on its own, they’re probably talking about the Commonwealth of Nations as @scholar@lemmy.world described. The Commonwealth of Nations is basically a loose grouping of countries that do various things together. Probably the most noteworthy thing they do together is the Commonwealth Games, a sort of mini-Olympics.

        But several other things also use the word. There’s the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a grouping of former Soviet states. There’s Australia, a country whose full name (in the way the full name of America is the United States of America) is the Commonwealth of Australia (and in Australia, “the Commonwealth” is sometimes used synonymously with “the federal Government”). There are several states in America which are properly termed commonwealths, such as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

    • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      What about that Plantagenet dude?

      According to Baldrick he lives in Australia and is no less legitimate a claim to be king of england than any of those bastards since Dick III. The fact that he hasn’t raised an army and started any wars suggests he might be less of a dick than most of them.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Real_Monarch

      Oh - looks like he died, but maybe his offsping.

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
    331·
    17 days ago

    Lions fights other cats in their pride. How often do Tigers even run into another tiger? So experience goes to the lion.

    Tigers kill by grabbing the throat with their teeth and letting the prey suffocate. Lion has a big wirey mane around his neck - something evolution gave him for… Fighting other big cats.

    Yes the tiger is bigger, but the lion has the tools and experience to overcome that small size difference.

    • faintwhenfree@lemmus.orgEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      Asiatic lions used to live in jungles and because of them king of the jungle started . They’re close to extinction and confined to a small sanctuary that is still surprise, surprise still a jungle. Now since African Lions are the more prominent species and they show up in discovery/nat geo the most, people think lion is a savanna animal. Lions are very versatile and can live in many biomes.