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25 Years after roaring into theaters, The Lion King is back.
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This time with a more realistic look.
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But is the remake really more true to nature than the original?
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To be fair to Disney, they did fix some mistakes from the original version.
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Take Rafiki.
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In one scene in the 1994 film, he and Simba argue about which one of them is a baboon.
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It means you're a baboon.
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And I'm not.
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Clearly Simba is not a baboon.
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But neither is Rafiki.
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He's a different kind of monkey altogether, a mandrill.
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Mandrills have short tails.
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And what's more?
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Rafiki has a long tail.
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Yet in real life mandrills are nearly tailless.
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Luckily disney fixes this problem in the remake, so now Rafiki looks like the mandrill he's meant to be.
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But unfortunately Disney didn't get the mandrills behavior quite right. (Mandrills don't swing through trees.)
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See how they're swinging through the trees?
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Yeah, mandrills don't really do that.
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They spend most of their time on the ground.
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And when they do take to the trees, they walk across the branches on all fours.
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This swinging behavior is actually more similar to how a Gibbon moves.
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But enough about mandles, what about the Lions of the Lion King?
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Well there are a few problems there too.
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Lions roar. But not like that.
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Take that iconic lion roar.
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Sounds majestic, right?
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Just like the famous MGM roar.
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Here's the issue.
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A lion's roar doesn't sound like that.
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This is a roar.
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It's not quite as majestic as what you hear in the movie.
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But that sound can still travel up to eight kilometers away.
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Lion moms keep their cubs close.
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Some of the liens behavior is also off.
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And that's not including talking with ghosts.
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Watch how Simba scampers off with his dad.
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It's a touching scene, but in real life Surabhi would never let Simba out of her sight.
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While lion cubs do play with their fathers, their mothers are extremely protective.
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And you can't blame them, because if a new male comes to town and takes over the pride, he'll try to kill their young cubs.
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Sound familiar?
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That's right!
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Scar schemed to usurp Mufasa was in line with normal lion behavior.
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Except his methods were rather unconventional.
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Lions and hyenas don't get along.
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Because lions and hyenas don't work together, ever.
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In fact there are major competitors for food in the wild.
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So it's hard to believe that a lion could convince a horde of hyenas to do his dirty work even with a catchy villain Saad.
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