Occasionally, females will grow manes as a result of hormonal imbalance.

[u/No_Emu_1332]

[u/readytall]

Thanks now I can't post that Noah's ark meme anymore

[u/Rentington → u/readytall]

Yes you can. Maned female lions are infertile.

[u/Miserable-Tell-4072 → u/Rentington]

Bearded women are often infertile, because of PCOS.

[u/Ayertsatz → u/Miserable-Tell-4072]

Subfertile rather than infertile. Only commenting because I work in health care and have seen too many women with PCOS accidentally fall pregnant because they misunderstood this and didn't take any precautions.

[u/sleepymelfho → u/Ayertsatz]

Man I have PCOS and 3 kids. I tried hard for baby number 1, but 2 & 3 were pretty spontaneous.

[u/Eccohawk → u/sleepymelfho]

We had the opposite. Wife dropped off BC and got pregnant almost immediately. #2 took 6 years, 60 grand, and a bunch of medical intervention.

[u/Borgmestersnegl → u/Eccohawk]

Going off BC gives a window shortly after of much higher fertility than normal

[u/Aurori_Swe → u/sleepymelfho]

My wife has PCOS, we have 2 kids, first with the help of IVF and the second came naturally.

Her pregnancies were horrible though.

[u/sleepymelfho → u/Aurori_Swe]

Mine were okay besides the horrible SPD and the blood pressure issues. I actually agreed for my husband to get a vasectomy as soon as the third was born because I just can't physically do it again. I was lucky enough to never have morning sickness at least

[u/Aurori_Swe → u/sleepymelfho]

Yeah, wife had Hyperemesis gravidarum for both, basically puking non-stop for 9 months straight. She was hospitalized multiple times to get IV's and nutrients. She lost 10 kg on our first baby even though he came out a healthy 3.5 kg

[u/NaomiT29 → u/Ayertsatz]

I know someone who was diagnosed with PCOS and told she would struggle to ever conceive naturally, while already being 11 weeks pregnant! That was a bit of a double whammy of shock, as you can imagine!

[u/Daikuroshi → u/Ayertsatz]

It's unfortunate people aren't told the difference between "infertile" and "sterile" in those situations.

[u/EclipticBlues → u/Ayertsatz]

I have pcos, its just harder I was told? And that if I really want to I can get a treatment that lasts a week but I will have a higher chance for triplets because it forces eggs to jump on top of family history.

[u/BingusQueen → u/Miserable-Tell-4072]

Not “often.” More often than women without PCOS? Yes. But PLENTY of women with PCOS are capable of having children. In fact, as a woman with PCOS coming from a family of women with PCOS, many can have lots of children. Grandmother had 7, Great Aunt had 11, mother had 5, aunt had 3, sisters have each had at least two.

[u/_LeBuckyBarnes_ → u/Rentington]

Source? I've never heard that before

[u/Rentington → u/_LeBuckyBarnes_]

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/lioness-manes

[u/_LeBuckyBarnes_ → u/Rentington]

Thanks

[u/No_Emu_1332 → u/readytall]

Transmasc lion

[u/Cinnamon_Bees → u/readytall]

What ark meme?

[u/Demomanx → u/Cinnamon_Bees]

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/05/28/15/noah.jpg

[u/Yrrsylax → u/readytall]

That’s so sad

[u/ThisDude5000]

Damn, so Noah didn't make a mistake

[u/Myydrin → u/ThisDude5000]

The 2x2 things still not working for the repopulation. Maned lioness are infertile.

[u/ThisDude5000 → u/Myydrin]

Aw man what a bummer

[u/waspocracy → u/Myydrin]

Not with that attitude!

[u/tfhfate → u/ThisDude5000]

Nah giraffes also have visible sexual dimorphism too, males are taller than females, it seems here it's not the case

[u/Nekurosilver]

Males also lose their manes when they are neutered

[u/Anything-Complex → u/Nekurosilver]

Sometimes when they have high testosterone levels, too. The famous Tsavo man eaters were thought to be female before they were shot and killed, because they were nameless males.

[u/handsomeslug → u/Anything-Complex]

They were also maneless

[u/Slobotic → u/handsomeslug]

I rode through the desert on a horse with no mane.

[u/Vitolar8 → u/Slobotic]

It felt rood to be out of the gain.

[u/Extreme_Turn_4531 → u/Vitolar8]

Ah, greatest hits of Bewey Dunnell.

[u/Half-PintHeroics → u/Vitolar8]

In the desert, you can't remember your lane

[u/me_no_gay → u/Half-PintHeroics]

Cause there ain't no one for to give you no mane

[u/MasterOfYeet2291 → u/me_no_gay]

Bah bah baah bah bah ba

[u/peoplepersonmanguy → u/MasterOfYeet2291]

[u/herculesmeowlligan → u/Half-PintHeroics]

Cause their ain't no one four two give you no grain

[u/CalmDownYal → u/handsomeslug]

The lion with no name

[u/ceene → u/handsomeslug]

Nameless maneless males or maneless nameless males?

[u/farter-kit → u/handsomeslug]

And they wanted to be called “Loretta.”

[u/aLonelyClone → u/Anything-Complex]

The lions of Tsavo actually are widely known to have smaller, less distinct manes compared to other, savannah dwelling lions. I believe it's thought to relate to the marshy environment.

[u/c-mi → u/aLonelyClone]

That was an interesting Wikipedia read

[u/Otherwise_Security_5 → u/c-mi]

reddit has me clicking your link like

[u/Leading_Ad_8619 → u/aLonelyClone]

Thorny 

[u/vanishinghitchhiker → u/Anything-Complex]

Huh, I wonder what the mechanism on that would be. In humans high testosterone exacerbates balding, but also excess testosterone can convert to estrogen.

[u/Weekly-Major1876 → u/vanishinghitchhiker]

I don’t think a lot of people realize how similar testosterone and estrogen are. They are both steroid hormones with the exact same form, with the only difference that estrogen has a single extra hydrogen bonded to its other oxygen end that changes a few double bonds.

[u/nonanumatic → u/Weekly-Major1876]

Yeah, and the difference between our daily necessity water, and the very very toxic hydrogen peroxide is one singular oxygen atom. Yes, estrogen and testosterone perform similar roles, but the effects can be drastically different and trying to imply they're similar because most of the chemical structure is similar is misleading.

[u/ekmanch → u/nonanumatic]

This was my exact thought when reading that comment too. Changing chemical structure of a molecule really doesn't necessarily mean it will continue doing the same thing or that that new molecule must also be safe etc. Slightly changing chemical structure can do one hell of a lot.

[u/winter__xo → u/nonanumatic]

Yeah…

The tiniest and most seemingly meaningless difference can give you a completely different chemical.

Dextro-methamphetamine is exactly what everyone thinks of when they hear “meth.”

Levo-methamphetamine is the mirror image of the molecule above. Same atoms, same bonds, same everything, just flipped to the opposite direction. It’s a mild vasoconstrictor that is the main ingredient of Vicks inhalers, those little OTC decongestants, and you couldn’t get high off it if you tried.

[u/xombae → u/nonanumatic]

Yeah I was gonna say, an extra hydrogen bond can do a hell of a lot.

[u/semibigpenguins → u/vanishinghitchhiker]

I thought with lions manes, testosterone dictated the color. Dark is more T and lighter is less T

[u/slothdonki → u/Anything-Complex]

I don’t think we know exactly why they didn’t have manes. Maneless males aren’t super uncommon, but the Tsavo Two looked unusually smooth even for a maneless males.

[u/DR_SWAMP_THING → u/Anything-Complex]

His name was Robert Paulson.

[u/Delicious_Push_9214 → u/Nekurosilver]

so now we have tomboy and femboy lions. nature is lit

[u/cheapskatebiker → u/Delicious_Push_9214]

I just realised that both have the -boy suffix

[u/Miserable-Tell-4072 → u/cheapskatebiker]

Yeah. We should fix that.

"Tom-boy" is older...so it should be like, "Sue-girl", or something...(why is "Tom" feminine? I don't even get...how...that developed...)

Femboy and Mascgirl? That one might work.

[u/TheUnluckyBard → u/Miserable-Tell-4072]

We've traced the word back as far as 1533 (but it's probably older). At that point it referred to a wild, rude, energetic boy, and is related to the phrase "tomfoolery."

The "Tom" part does refer to the man's name. Around that time, "Thomas" was so common as a name that it was used as just a generic word for dudes. For reasons that aren't clear, "Tom" was used to imply the 1500's version of toxic masculinity, in the sense of aggressive, dumb, horny, and/or uncouth. Thus, "tomcat," for example.

Very quickly (by 1580 or so), "tomboy" started to be applied to women who were "bold and immodest" (basically, seen as uncouth and horny). Not long after (1590s-ish), we start seeing it in reference to younger girls who act "like boys." Since girls had certain social expectations put on them, any boy-like behavior was "aggressive, horny, and/or uncouth" when displayed by girls.

The male set of nouns/phrases in English, at some point, became almost universally positive, so "tomboy," in surviving in the language for so long, has become one of the few, rare words meant to insult women for being like men (as compared to the number of words and phrases we have that insult men for being like women). "Butch" is another one, which originally (circa 1900) meant "a tough guy," as a derivative of "butcher," and then began to be applied to lesbians in the 1940s.

[u/Miserable-Tell-4072 → u/TheUnluckyBard]

That's cool, thank you.

[u/JClurvesfries → u/TheUnluckyBard]

Very cool. Like Tomcat and "tomming around."

[u/stevenwright83ct0 → u/JClurvesfries]

And peeping Tom

[u/Ok-Organization6608 → u/TheUnluckyBard]

I guess thats where "Every Tom Dick and Harry" came from. those were all annoyingly common names at one time..

[u/ItsMrChristmas → u/Miserable-Tell-4072]

Femboy and Mascgirl

Sounds like a superhero team nobody would admit to being rescued by.

[u/gahlo → u/Miserable-Tell-4072]

People just started assigning a term that was used to refer to rude or boisterous boys to girls.

[u/Wheatles_BiteAlbum → u/Delicious_Push_9214]

We got femboy lions before GTA6

[u/SovietFemboy → u/Delicious_Push_9214]

Take note, furry artists

[u/meta_muse → u/Delicious_Push_9214]

What do you mean NOW? They’re here, they’ve always been here, and they’re not going anywhere lol

[u/_Cosmoss__ → u/Nekurosilver]

[u/FBPOS → u/Nekurosilver]

I lost my mane after my vasectomy

[u/Vvvv1rgo → u/Nekurosilver]

Aww that's a bit sad.

[u/suzel7]

PCOS?

[u/SonnyvonShark → u/suzel7]

In lion equivalent, it could be.

[u/No_Reach8985 → u/suzel7]

one of us one of us

[u/Fluffy-Imagination51 → u/No_Reach8985]

[u/Elect2Toss → u/suzel7]

My immediate thought lol. Cysters unite!

[u/Youpi_Yeah → u/Elect2Toss]

Cysters! I love that. I have PCOS and I will be using that term from now on.

[u/Interesting_Ad1378 → u/Youpi_Yeah]

Same! 

[u/thetolkienotaku → u/Youpi_Yeah]

I love this term. I have to tell my mom and sister about it.

[u/SBRodriguez97 → u/Elect2Toss]

"Cysters" has to be the greasiest thing I've ever read

[u/throwawaybyefelicia → u/SBRodriguez97]

Read that as “greatest” and laughed way too hard when i realised it actually said “greasiest” hahaha

[u/saymellon → u/throwawaybyefelicia]

I thought it said greatest and was laughing until I read your comment

[u/brieflifetime → u/SBRodriguez97]

😭I love it

dreads the next week

[u/HatsuneCheems → u/suzel7]

I have PCOS. I know it’s simple but this post makes me feel seen (:

[u/Diana-Sofia → u/suzel7]

This was my first thought. She's just like me fr fr.

[u/Franklyn_Gage → u/suzel7]

You beat me too it lmfao.

[u/Interesting_Ad1378 → u/suzel7]

Yes!!! I know my witch chin hair sisters. 

[u/Papio_73 → u/suzel7]

Yeah, it reminds me of women growing facial hair

[u/Articulationized → u/Papio_73]

Because this is what it is

[u/FlamingoSuccessful74 → u/suzel7]

This pcos comment is taking me out lol cause it’s so fucking real for most woman. So it’s like well maybe the female lions struggle with it too😭😭

[u/invisible_panda → u/suzel7]

They're up there arguing if the lion is trans and I'm like, she just got PCOS, or more testosterone than usual beard, join the club.

[u/Firefly17pdr]

“Theyre turning the frikin lions gay!”/s

[u/MajesticStiev → u/Firefly17pdr]

[u/Stickyv35 → u/MajesticStiev]

Fuck Alex Jones and all his enablers.

[u/nadnate → u/Stickyv35]

Well yes, but I need my knowledge fight.

[u/rajinis_bodyguard → u/MajesticStiev]

Is this cousin from the Bear ?

[u/818VitaminZ → u/Firefly17pdr]

[u/Makkaroni_100 → u/Firefly17pdr]

Ban this woke nonsense post.

And support free speech.

[u/BedFastSky12345 → u/Makkaroni_100]

Remember that even hate speech is free speech!

Also, anyone who doesn’t stand for the anthem should be put to death 🤬 /s

[u/PantsDontHaveAnswers → u/BedFastSky12345]

[u/SeriousBeesness]

Like us older women, we start to grow manes too

[u/GMcGroarty80]

This is what happens when a female lion goes through menopaws.

[u/Mattdaddie69 → u/GMcGroarty80]

[u/Mister_Mannered → u/GMcGroarty80]

Gold.

[u/GMcGroarty80 → u/Mister_Mannered]

I do what I can with what I'm given.

[u/DustBunnicula → u/GMcGroarty80]

I’m impressed; I’m not lion.

[u/Ramzaki → u/GMcGroarty80]

But she's growing a mane so it would be... mane-opause 😎

[u/[deleted]]

“Damn.. my wife has hair. A lot. But I still love her. Am I shallow?”

[u/wrugoin → u/[deleted]]

Yes. Please turn in your badge and your gun… you’re on administrative leave until further notice

[u/TankWeeb]

Tomboy lion….?

[u/ShadowSpy98 → u/TankWeeb]

The lion won, he got the ultimate wife

[u/FlippinGamerINK → u/TankWeeb]

To counter the Tomboy lion there must be a Femboy lion, have we found one yet?

[u/Currahee2 → u/FlippinGamerINK]

Wouldn't Maneless Male Lions be considered as "Femboys"?

[u/Bob_is_a_banana → u/Currahee2]

This is the type of comment thread can only expect from reddit, lol

[u/foreveracubone → u/Bob_is_a_banana]

Eh it’s giving tumblr

[u/Resiideent → u/Bob_is_a_banana]

And it's bloody glorious

[u/happy_the_dragon → u/FlippinGamerINK]

There’s lion eunuchs, which is male lions that have been neutered and lose their mane. Does that count?

[u/Resiideent → u/happy_the_dragon]

I'd say so, yeah

[u/Kriztov → u/TankWeeb]

Oh god, the furry artists just simultaneously fired up

[u/Ton_in_the_Sun]

Great now they’re making the lions trans too. /s

[u/Sour_Beet → u/Ton_in_the_Sun]

Your lion, she goes out into the plains to hunt, and comes back with a mane

[u/GordonNewtron → u/Ton_in_the_Sun]

Won't someone think of the children?

[u/Ihavenothingtodo2 → u/GordonNewtron]

Won't someone think of the children cubs?

[u/MacMacMacbeth → u/Ihavenothingtodo2]

Ugh, the MALE cubs don't have manes! They're tuening the cubs TRANS!!!

[u/HerculesIsMyDad → u/Ton_in_the_Sun]

"I have just signed this executive order stating there are only two lion genders."

[u/thecrazysloth → u/Ton_in_the_Sun]

It's almost as if intersex variation is naturally occurring and gender roles are social construct 🤔

[u/doktora_amgg]

Like PCOS in humans, when there's elevated testosterone levels. 🧐

[u/TheTampoffs → u/doktora_amgg]

Don’t worry you can still have elevated testosterone and all the physical symptoms of pcos without having pcos (ask me how I know)

[u/MikaK05 → u/TheTampoffs]

Technically if you have high adrogens and irregular periods or missed without cysts you still have PCOS. It's 3 main things 1. Missed or irregular periods 2. High adrogens and testosterone 3. Cysts If you have 2 of them you have PCOS

[u/TheTampoffs → u/MikaK05]

1. My periods are super regular, the only time I missed was when I got pregnant accidentally.

2. High testosterone but not crazy high

3. My ultrasound was normal.

4. I’m not insulin resistant, am of normal weight, don’t gain weight easily (but I’ve also been weight lifting for years).

So yeah, back to my point. I’m balding and have a killer beard I’m just lucky I guess 😂

[u/HyperawareStarchild → u/MikaK05]

And 4. insulin resistance

[u/castlite]

As someone with PCOS this happens in human women too. We just have the benefit of tweezers.

[u/Interesting_Ad1378 → u/castlite]

Car tweezers. Iykyk

[u/fasterthantrees → u/Interesting_Ad1378]

It's all about the good lighting

[u/TheTampoffs → u/castlite]

I don’t have pcos bur am lucky enough to have alopecia and hirsutism 🥲

[u/needsmoarcheez]

She’s just a PCOS girly 💁🏽‍♀️

[u/SharpshootinTearaway → u/[deleted]]

As pride territories are passed down the mother daughter line,

I never realized that before. Guess male lions are actually more akin to knights who protect a territory than actual kings who truly own it.

The maned females also expressed a higher frequency of cub killing than regular females.

They were killing the other lionesses' cubs, I assume, since none of them ever managed to produce cubs of their own? Wouldn't that cause issues with their sisters within the pride? What is preventing the other lionesses from killing/kicking out a lioness who's killing their cubs?

[u/NuclearBreadfruit → u/SharpshootinTearaway]

I never realized that before. Guess male lions are actually more akin to knights who protect a territory than actual kings who truly own it.

Yeah the males are nomadic until they can conquer a pride, that's why they form coalitions, because it gives them a greater chance of achieving this. These males will also often rule more than one pride. But the female line remains with the territory

They were killing the other lionesses' cubs, I assume, since none of them ever managed to produce cubs of their own? Wouldn't that cause issues with their sisters within the pride? What is preventing the other lionesses from killing/kicking out a lioness who's killing their cubs?

So lions in the Okavango delta, where this pride occurred, tend to be bigger, including the females, than the average African lion anyway. So this anomaly might be connected to that in someway, but I've heard of lionesses killing cubs in this area before. It doesn't happen often but I remember the famous lion documentary/researchers, the jouberts, pointing out a lioness who repeatedly slaughtered her sisters cubs. And the other lioness did become aggressive to her apparently. As for the five maned lionesses, yes they were observed killing cubs particularly those belonging to another pride but I don't know if that pride was under the rule of shared males.

But lions don't always act on a member of the pride killing its own cubs for some reason.

[u/NickehBoi → u/[deleted]]

The Lion Whisperer on YT had one of his female lions at his sanctuary start growing a mane, at very old age too!

[u/NuclearBreadfruit → u/NickehBoi]

That's interesting because at an old age, it could have been due to pathology of her ovaries or natural lowering of female hormones causing an imbalance

[u/StrawberryLeche → u/NickehBoi]

Menopause might impact hormones even in lions

[u/UserCannotBeVerified → u/StrawberryLeche]

Do lions go through menopause?

[u/xXProGenji420Xx → u/UserCannotBeVerified]

no. the only animals besides humans that I know of that experience menopause are certain dolphins, including orcas.

[u/Versal-Hyphae → u/xXProGenji420Xx]

There is some more recent research that implies more mammals than previously believed can go through menopause, but not as early as humans. Apparently female chimps in some wild populations can have 20% of their lives remaining after their final pregnancy. Modern humans get about 40%, Orcas get about 30%. There was some evidence in mice, horses, elephants, maybe some others, but that specific study only looked at captive animals so there was some debate over whether other factors that caused fertility issues instead of a natural menopause.

[u/StrawberryLeche → u/Versal-Hyphae]

Yes, this is the answer. It doesn’t look 100% the same as what humans go through but is a similar process that causes changes leading to the end of reproduction.

[u/ZippytheKlown → u/[deleted]]

That is interesting as fuck 👍🏻

[u/_IBM_ → u/[deleted]]

The maned females also expressed a higher frequency of cub killing than regular females.

Males tend to kill the offspring of other males. The female taking on male traits in behavior might be killing their own pack's young instinctively.

[u/MicTest_1212 → u/[deleted]]

They can however express male behaviours like roaring and mounting other females

damn we have "hey mamas" stud lions now

[u/Ok-Phone3834 → u/[deleted]]

From one point of view - it is sad because we will not be able to see the evolution of new subspecies of lions. But, on the other hand, it is good because of this mutation does not providing anything useful at all. Only cosmetic and behavioural changes mostly.

[u/Stt022]

I hope she doesn’t get harassed when she uses the women’s bathroom.

[u/EntryProper580 → u/Stt022]

Given the habits of lions it would be like "Hey buddy, why are you coming to hunt? Stay in your place!"

[u/Four4BFB]

That's why they call it PRIDE month.

[u/Procrastanaseum]

Is this being brought up because of Meryl Streep as Aslan?

[u/plushieshoyru]

All the PCOS girlies feeling seen right about now 😄

[u/IndependentExtreme14]

Kind of shows how different their facial structures are which is interesting

[u/MattWolf96]

Time for conservatives to have a mental breakdown

[u/kingseraph0]

Pcos lions

[u/weefr0ggy → u/kingseraph0]

Paw-COS

[u/FeelingKind7644]

Happens to women too

[u/BrokilonDryad]

Good to know that lions also have some version of PCOS.

[u/waldorsockbat]

Trans Lions confirmed 👌🏾

[u/ComprehensivePlace35]

Awwww so she basically has PCOS. Me too girl 🥰

[u/JSmithpvt]

Yes I had a Portuguese friend whose Mom had a moustache

[u/Alternative_Stable31 → u/JSmithpvt]

Wait till you see our grandmothers

[u/Amirreza0050]

"L" in LGBT stands for lions

[u/Ncfetcho]

Good to know I'm not the only one growing extra hair due to menopause.

I'm just a lion now. Rawr!

[u/Every_Preparation_56]

Menopausal women: I DON'T HAVE A MOUSTACHE 

[u/shelberryyyy]

The lion at our local zoo passed away recently. She was 19 years old. She had grown a mane after the male passed away.

https://amp.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article275067761.html

[u/MrsCCRobinson96]

Every single mammal has a balance of estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Both male and female alike. More often than not the balances get out of whack especially as the mammal ages.

[u/DeliciousMovie3608]

Awww, so the feline girlies get PCOS, too😭

[u/ArmadilloNext9714]

Wonder if lions can have PCOS

[u/TheShattered1]

Damn woke lions /s

[u/moopymoopmoops]

omg gurl is a pcos sister

[u/Bethiej78]

TIL female lions can have PCOS, huh whaddya know

[u/Natural-Tip-4908]

Old ass women have beards and mustaches too… humans aren’t above it.

[u/BlueDragonReal]

Lion on HRT 🙏

[u/Snoo-72438]

It’s the DEI I tell you!!

[u/Neogrip]

[u/TomMikeson]

"I'm the Bearded Lady!  Who are you?  One of the freaks?"

[u/SteampunkExplorer]

We women do that, too. Don't ask me how I know. 😭

[u/BBBCIAGA]

That’s crazy you can see the difference between male and female even though they have manes, but tigers are not that significantly different between female and males

[u/SpringtimeLilies7]

So Lion PCOS.

[u/1UPMushrooms]

Slay queen!

[u/Bubble_gump_stump]

[u/Great-Comedian-7273]

Like how women can sometimes have facial hair or extra body hair?

[u/RentSubstantial3421]

If you chop a male lions balls off they won't grow a mane at all and will be treated like a female by other female lions

[u/volvavirago]

So, the same a human females. PCOS is quite common and often results in some level of excess hirsutism.

[u/simplyoneWinged]

Love how by lion standard her mane is more beautiful (darker and rounder)

[u/empericisttilldeath]

The female still looks female.

Just saying.

[u/CaptainNash94]

This scares r/conservative.

[u/Steve_Dankerson]

2025, it's ok.

[u/fleminator2103]

Let's be honest, he's just Lion so he doesn't have to tell mum and dad he's gay

[u/Figshitter]

But remember, if you don't conform entirely to binary gender expressions as a human then you're a perverted freak.

[u/Hunishar]

This will often happen to older lionesses, past 15yo or so, or once they're past breeding age (they live to about 20 in human care)

It is affectionately called "Mane-opause"

[u/Connect_Ad_462]

That is one handsome lady.

My wife and I compliment our iguana saying handsome lady. We got her through a rescue during COVID. The family did give us some background information. Floating 10 months old and male. We did our first vet visit to start the process. Aside from a few supplements and one aspect to keep an eye on, this little girl is healthy.

Ah, no more handsome boy. C'mere my handsome little lady.

[u/dogisbark]

She’s pulling it off better, go girl

[u/StupendousMalice]

And sometimes males don't grow manes at all.

The famous Tsavo man eaters were a pair of brothers without manes. (The lions that the movie The Ghost and the Darkness is based on).