Bias

One day, a ferocious lion woke up angry. He was bitter, resentful and needed to prove himself to others. As he stalked through the forest, he spied a fox. Roaring up to the fox, the lion asked through gnarled teeth, "Fox, who is the strongest and most feared animal in the forest?"  Shaking in fear, the fox managed to answer, "Why, why, yoooouuu are, Mr. Lion. Surely you are."  With a glare that could peel bark off a tree, and feeling a bit more confident, the lion slowly walked away.

A little deeper in the forest, the lion crossed paths with a rhino.  Once again roaring ferociously, the lion cornered the frightened rhino. "Rhino,", the lion demanded, "who is the strongest and most feared animal in the forest?" The rhino, struggling to get the words out through chattering teeth, whispered, "Why you are Mr. lion. You are."  The lion glared contemptuously at the rhino, and without lifting his gaze, stalked slowly away.

Feeling even better about himself, the lion soon stumbled upon an elephant sunbathing itself in a small clearing. Intending to strike deep fear into the elephant, the lion summoned his most fearsome roar and pounced forward. "Elephant," the lion roared, "who is the strongest and most feared animal in the forest?" In one swift move, the elephant curled the lion in its trunk and slammed him to the ground, from one side to the other. After a few minutes of this, the elephant threw the lion up against a tree. As the lion lay stunned, not understanding what was happening, the elephant raised up its leg, stomped on the lion and walked away most disinterestedly.

The lion, dazed and confused by this sudden turn of events finally figured it out and called after the elephant,"You didn't have to get so mad just because you didn't know the answer!"