This is fascinating. I’m not so sure about what Trump Girl says about the lionesses’ rearing – this appears to be a safari encounter, but it certainly is possible the beast has been reared in close human proximity. Nonetheless, what makes this so captivating (to me, at least), is precisely the sizing-up that’s going on. The lioness eventually recognises that she’s looking directly at a predator far more dangerous than her brain can fathom. She can see the semblance of unusual calmness in the eyes of the man. The position of his forward-facing eyes conveying that he is himself a predator – yet, in the proportions of a smallish primate, resembling prey. It’s the unusual paradox of our species: an ultra predator who could wipe out the lionesses’ entire species for sport, yet confined to a physical form that scarcely portrays lethality. We are even more terrifying to ourselves because we can understand the advantage which an animal can only sense.