An old lion known as Lipstick was lying in the grass at a large national game reserve in Kenya and was looking like dinner to a pack of hungry hyenas.
But then the lion put a quick end to those plans with one simple gesture.
The King of the Jungle stood up.
The video was taken in Maasai Mara—or The Mara, to locals—and was posted on Masaai Sightings’ YouTube page.
Maasai Sightings said the old male lion was “surrounded by a hyena clan and looked in trouble for a second until he stood up and the clan proceeded to run away. The clan probably noticed his old age and thought they could mess with him until they realized they were in over their heads and proceeded to leave him alone.”
Several of the commenters on YouTube zeroed in on Lipstick’s mane and the need of a new hairdresser.
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“He won’t get any lionesses with that hair style,” one wrote. “Fix your mane!”
“Why’s lion wearing his grandfather’s wig,” another wrote.
“LOL,” stated another, “this lion with his 1970s British hair-do.”
Finally, someone wrote, “I had the same hairstyle in the ‘80s after the rain.”