People.com Lifestyle Pets Pandas Re-enact 'The Lion King' 's Most Dramatic Scene Even pandas get pushy from time to time By Kelli Bender Kelli Bender Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor for PEOPLE Digital and PEOPLE magazine. She has been with the PEOPLE brand for more than eight years, working as a writer/producer across PEOPLE's Lifestyle, Features, and Entertainment verticals before taking on her current role. Kelli is also an editor on PEOPLE's Stories to Make You Smile and serves as an editorial lead on PEOPLE's World's Cutest Rescue Dog Contest and Pet Product Awards. Before joining PEOPLE, Kelli helped AOL and Whalerock launch a pet lifestyle site called PawNation. She is a pet parent to a cat named Wallace, and her professional and personal devotion to animals has taken her to three dog weddings ... so far. People Editorial Guidelines Published on May 11, 2015 08:30 PM Share Tweet Pin Email You thought pandas were sweet, innocent, altruistic sweeties, right? Well, these black-and-white bears have a dark side. In this video, one panda decides it is time to re-enact the dramatic death scene from Disney classic The Lion King. Playing the role of Scar, the panda higher up in the exhibit pounces on his counterpart, whispers something menacing in his ear (probably “Long live the king!”) and then sends him tumbling down the ditch. Luckil for the Mufasa panda in this scenario, it’s a small ditch, not a gaping chasm in the Savanna. Both the bears eventually shake off the encounter and move on. This is a good reminder that the circle of life rules us all, but it doesn’t give us permission to be jerks.