“In perhaps the most notorious incident, a male lion killed one of his sons and its mother when she tried to protect her offspring. “Fighting and killing each other, in particular males killing other males, mostly subadults. That’s something that occurs in other populations, especially unhunted ones. One batch of kittens was positively Targaryenesque in its incestuous complexity: In 2018, P-53 gave birth to a litter likely sired by P-12. That made him the kittens’ father, grandfather, great grandfather, and great-great grandfather. ”
