Posted on 11/03/2009 6:38:51 AM PST by Frenchtown Dan
The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as previously thought.
Over nine months the two voracious hunters claimed 35 lives — no small figure, but much less than some accounts of as many as 135 victims.
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Orginal Viking Kitty?
Quick - can I get an H1Lion1 vaccination???
Redford made a movie about this about 10 years ago.
A movie was made about this ..”The Ghost and the Darkness “ pretty good flick ....
It’s a miracle the J. Patterson didn’t get eaten, worst lion hunter ever.
The Ghost and the Darkness was a good movie!
I’ve seen them at the Field Museum in Chicago and was surprised at how small they were.
A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh...
I remember the movie, that’s why the article caught my eye.
I wonder if the lions were in zero’s grandpappy’s village.
It was in Kenya. Could’ve changed history if they ate him.
Here is a pic of the REAL Original Lion Kill:
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/tsavo/gallery_photos/z93658.jpg
They obviously made the Taxidermy casts smaller than they were.
Other side of the country.
Also they mostly ate railroad workers imported from India.
hippos kill more africans than do lions
Taste like curry...
True. Really nasty things, those hippos. Related to Hillary.
BIG difference, thanks
Great movie. Good old fashioned scary without monsters or crazy men with chainsaws.
Spectators cheered as entire Cambodian Midget Fighting League squared off against African Lion
Tickets had been sold-out three weeks before the much anticipated fight, which took place in the city of Kâmpóng Chhnãng.
The fight was slated when an angry fan contested Yang Sihamoni, President of the CMFL, claiming that one lion could defeat his entire league of 42 fighters.
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The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs, rendering them unable to fight back.
Sihamoni was quoted before the fight stating that he felt since his fighters out-numbered the lion 42 to 1, that they “… could out-wit and out-muscle [it].”
Unfortunately, he was wrong.
Yes, this is satire. A joke! And damn funny!
...
“Seems that during the night Perkins here has had his bitten, sort of... off.”
and no manes.
You’re serious!
I thought it was a joke!
“An African Lion (Panthera Leo) was shipped to centrally located Kâmpóng Chhnãng especially for the event, which took place last Saturday, April 30, 2005 in the city’s coliseum”
I wonder if it was filmed. Gotta check YouTube.
Highlight my post below the link.
How did this not get its own thread?
Very few lions have Internet access.
It’s not my fault. I’ve been paying the Al Gore Internet Tax on my phone bill since the 1990s.
Old story. There probably is one already, from way back when.
So it was a hoax.
Well, that's the last time anybody asks that lion if he would a little something to eat.
Lions are African; ergo, that statement must be racist.
“The Man-Eaters of Tsavo” was one of the first books I read on the Kindle. Interesting read.
Hmm... Interesting.
“So... it’ll grow back then?” :-)
Read the book “The Tsavo Maneaters” by Peter Hathaway Capstick for the start to finish demise of these horrible beasts!
Thanks. I need to go to the library anyway. Gives me even more reason.
I’m going to have to keep a lookout for that youtube video.
Sounds series.
The fight was called in only 12 minutes, after which 28 fighters were declared dead, while the other 14 suffered severe injuries including broken bones and lost limbs, rendering them unable to fight back......
And in the process, the Lion scored a perfect 300....
News from 111 years ago. This is why jungle drum news failed.
Yeah, I know it’s old, but I really posted it for all of the hard-core vegans.
I think it was 2 young males who hadn’t developed manes yet.
Apparently they were both rare male lions without manes.
Also, the fact that the lions did not have the typical male mane is one of the things that made them so dangerous. Again IIRC...
Without manes these lions could slip through the thorny underbrush more readily and be all sneaky.
The lions of that region of Africa have no manes.
The males have no manes?
Must be those Kenyan ones, or Indonesia or Hawaii or Bum Fk Egypt or maybe the Chicago ones with really big mouths, but no manes and no balls.
Kenya.
Maneless male lion (Panthera leo)
Interesting.
I’ll have to check it out, I’ve always thought I was up on what’s what in the animal world, but I’ve never heard of adult African male lions without manes.
I watched a documentary where they put different fake male lions in an area with a pride of female lions. The fake males all had different lengths and colors of manes. The females preffered the males with the longest and darkest manes.
Maybe the ones that ate all those poor railroad workers in the 1800’s were just sexually frustrated, and went on a feeding binge.
I CAN HAS HOOMIN?
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