Posted on 09/20/2005 7:28:42 AM PDT by Fawn
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- A pride of lions has killed and devoured 20 villagers, wounded 10 others and eaten at least 70 cattle in southern Ethiopia in the past week, police said Tuesday.
The attacks have forced at least 1,000 people to flee their homes in Hadia Zone, in the Southern Nation and Nationalities People State, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, according to a police statement.
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oops - Bother
OK, from what I remember reading,
both the lions were male.
But the hides had become increasingly damaged over the years, so when the taxidermists at the museum got them, they had to really work to make the skins 'fit'. And the manes were gone (trophy's mebby).
Obviously racist lions, and if the Ethiopians were not so poor because of racism they would have been able to get out of their village in time.
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Good point! It has been determined that there was over 100 pairs of running shoes sitting 3 termite hills over.
You're lion!
One of them belched and said "Don't run, you'll just die tired."
There are always exceptions. There is no question but that it is a sick and degrading pratice to kidnap young girls, beat them and force them to be your wife.
Belly up to the Ethiopian buffet!
Amazon has Capstick's edition, so it must still be in print.
There is also a website from the museum where the lions are displayed.
It's hard to feel sorry for people who kidnap young girls, beat them and force them to be wives.
...You know what the wolrd's fastest land animal is?
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The slowest human must out run the fastest lion.
Depends. On a lot.
The most important factor being the lion (or lioness, or even pride as in the above example). Killing a lion can be far easier than harvesting a buck, or it can be the most frustrating experience on earth. And the really good man-eaters are bloody murder to kill.
Shooting the opportunistic lion is easy ....too easy. They are so confident of their strength that they just leave their spoor everywhere, and then lay out of the veldt or savannah asking for a shot behind the ear! Same thing for the hugnry lion that picks off a native every now and then. Professional hunters have even slain whole prides of lions that kill people (nb: I did not call them man-eaters).
However a man-eater is a professional, and no ....i am not giving these beasts human personas. But you have to realize, all the hunters (both in the past, and in the present) who have hunted man-eaters have never had a nice experience. They often get hunted, and killed, themselves. The thing about a man-eater is that it knows what exactly it is hunting. It knows that man can lash back at it, and it knows about weapons and firearms. It will never attack the same spot twice, and will not fall for poisoned meat. Most do not even bother with traps. Oh, and the myth that man-eaters are old lions, or injured lions is just that ....a myth. While there are many lions that get injured (eg porcupine quills to the paws and jaw, or buffalo attack leaving it crippled) and aged, and thus cannot hunt orthodox prey, these lions are really not 'man-eaters.' Sure, they eat man, but they do so for survival. And these are easy to kill. However ALL of the truly legendary man-eaters (be they lion, leopard or tiger), have ALL been at the prime of their life ....and in fact not just healthy but rather large. For example the Tsavo lions, which were mane-less by the way, were about a third larger than normal lions. And some of the man-eating leopards, for example the Panar Maneater and the Leopard of Rudyaprayag, both in India, were enormous and at their primes.
Anyways, let me put it this way. A true man-eater, is very different from a mangy sot of a beast, ridden with disease, age, broken teeth and grotesque injury. A true man-eater is not going to be easy to kill. It will pick its targets very well, and will have a very good knowledge of the territory. Some of the better man-eaters have travelled almost a hundred miles between kill areas. And while it will eventually go down, it will take its pound of flesh with it.
now, this Ethiopian pride is probably comprised of opportunists who discovered humans can be easy prey. The only 'professional' pride of man-eaters (event he cubs were reared by their mothers as such) was in Central Africa, and there are rumors of similar prides existing in the Kruger national park in south Africa (where they feast on the hundreds of illegal immigrants trying to sneak into South Africa from the neighboring nations, in some ways they have become the most effective deterrent to sneaking across broder lines in that section). Thus this Ethiopian pride is most probably nabbing people because it is easy to do so, and thus it should be relatively easy to have the Ethiopian govt destroy the pride.
However when it comes to 'professional' mean-eaters all bets are off. They have nigh demonic intellect.
Very good!
I don't get this?
OK, thank you!
I do know from reading that the lions are smaller in the museum because they had to work around the damaged hides. I either extrapolated (or read) that the manes were gone as part of the process. Nice to know they do look more like what they're supposed to look like!
Agreed.
You don't understand AYBABTU ????!?
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