Was pride rock filled with incestuous lions?

This is an obvious problem that can arise from a movie that humanized animals. Anyone who know anything about lions can certainly point this out. That being said, as a middle of the road viewer of this film, this ranks pretty close to the bottom among possible flaws. In other words, it's a fun thing to point out, but has no real baring on the quality of the film.

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The only male we see in the pride is Mufasa.

So who was Nala's dad?

I was actually going to post a thread about this (Nala's dad, not the other stuff) a couple of days ago, but ended up never quite getting around to it. Doing some research for one of my own fantasy stories, I was researching lions, and came upon an interesting fact, lion oestrus lasts, depending on which website you go by, anywhere from 4-7 days, with 4 being the most common figure.

This provides a small window to the point that if the previous king mates with an impregnates Sarafina within the first day or two of her oestrus, but is then forced out, Mufasa and Scar can still mate with her unsuccessfully, but by the act believe that Nala is in fact one of their daughters, which would mean they don't kill her, even though she isn't actually one of their daughters.

Might have been filmed in a Fritzl basement.

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You have to realize that Lion King is set as more of a humanized world rather than the actual animal kingdom. They still act like animals, but a lot of the behaviors relate more to the human monarchy type of place. I honestly don't think Simba and nala are related.......they look nothing alike, Nala looks like a younger version of Sarafina!

Yes people make the argument that Scar/Mufasa don't look alike, but they could possibly (like in the books) have a Mother with brown fur and green eyes, and a Father with golden fur and red eyes.

Nala shares no attributes with Scar or with Mufasa for that matter. I believe that Sarafina mated with a rouge male, or that Sarafina's mate died before the events of the film take place.

Let's remember this is a Disney movie, I hardly think that incest would be a theme in the film. Disney never states who Nala's Father is, but I choose to believe it was a rouge Lion.

Or who knows? Nala and Sarafina could have been brought in from another pride just so that Nala could become betrhothed to Simba. After all Sarafina looks different from the other pride lionesses.

It is true, the dominant male will breed with many females, meaning simba and nala are half-siblings. So, it would be Mufasa.

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Given the fact that they are lions and not humans, incest doesn't initially play a big part in being looked at as an issue of morality. Both from perspectives of creationism and evolutionary perspectives, all living beings were made or designed to procreate in terms of males or females. It's for population and breeding in terms of survival and existence. Even with proof that direct incest between first-degree relations of species cause developmental issues, those issues naturally die out due to further evolutionary progression in mating as the distance becomes greater between relation of two creatures. So yes, there is an incestuous link because it's the nature of the beast to be sexually active and produce life in its most primitive form. This still happens today when cats mate to produce kittens, or dogs mate to make puppies. They are animals acting on primitive instinct. Incest is not an issue to them, because that's something that human society created as a moral dilemma.