Maneating Lions On Increase

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This somber video tells why whole prides of lions now stalk humans in Tanzania.

There have always been maneating lions, and the Tsavo area in Kenya, among others, has been particularly famous for that. But there now seem to be entire prides doing it in Tanzania.

See why here, but be aware that there is some graphic testimony by one African who lost his whole famly to lion attack.

Very informative, if a tad grisly.

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We humans that are unarmed must be pretty easy prey compared to the other animals out there.
Darwin?????
 
I watched the video twice and never saw any statistical or scientific data presented.

Basically, there were two anecdotal accounts of lion attacks bracketed by the comments of the "human/lion conflict expert" Hadass Kushnir. I did not notice any title (Dr., Professor, ...) preceding Kushnir's name. Just what are her credentials?

Are lion attacks on humans increasing? Or did someone decide to make a self-promoting, sensational video?

Does anyone actually keep meaningful records of this type attack? If not, how do they know if attacks are increasing, decreasing, or staying the same?
 
This reminds me of an old movie...The Ghost and the Darkness. Wasn't this based on a true story about two man-eating lions in Africa decades ago? Or maybe just sensationalized by Hollywood.
 
The movie was supposed to be based on a true story. How much it was sensationalized I can't say. But knowing Hollywood, what do you think? Still, you have to love a movie that features a double rifle. I have heard that the stuffed giant lions are on display in the Chicago Museum of Natural History.

Rule Number One: Don't stand between the lion and the cow!
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The movie was loosely based on the book "The Man Eaters of Tsavo". But I don't remember anything like M. Douglas' character Remington in it. Don't let the lion huggers tell you that only the sick and the old turn to eating humans. Lions have a strong family culture and are taught. They are also lazy and will eat any meat that they find the easiest,and since a lot of African bush cultures don't bury their dead, well you can figure that out. Even alive, the Africans present a pretty easy meal compared to Zebra or Cape Buffalo.
 
What's all this 'bout shootin' lions 'n such?
The UN can't seem to sort out the problems in Africa maybe the lions can.
I heard Madonna tastes like chicken, maybe one will get her on the way to the orphanage
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I thought that "The Ghost and the Darkness" was a pretty good movie. There was a very strange thing going on when the real attacks were taking place long ago in Africa. A ton of local folks that were working on the British railway project got draggged away in there sleep and eaten by what turned out to be two lions.

Here are some of the facts. Both lions were huge.

Both were male. This is supposedly very strange because male lions supposedly do not travel or hunt together (Except in San Fran!).

Another fact was that after they were finally killed, one was shown to have a severly infected tooth, which may have led it to prefer the soft meal of a human.

Here's a link to the movie trailer.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi368902937/

WG840
 
The Remington character in the movie replaced a series of hunters that tried their hand at killing the Tsavo lions.
The book is a great read. I actually thought that the movie did a fair presentation of it with a minimum of changes necessary to keep the story to film length.
 
Hi:
I recall a 1953 3D Movie "Bwana Devil" starring Robert Stack concerning Man-eating Lions in Africa harrassing Railroad Workers.
At the Movie's end His Rifle malfunctioned.
As a pre-teenager I wondered why would He have just one rifle in Africa?
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An article on the current situation on maneating lions is in the current issue of Natural History magazine. Seems that as the native peasant farmers spread out, the usual prey like antelope and zebras move out, but bush pigs move in. So the lions live on bush pigs and farmers. 400+ in the last year of record, probably as many more unreported. Just a case of population dynamics and statistics.

They described the development of effective control and prevention. A farmer's wife went to the outhouse at night and did not return. He found the remaining half of her the next day. Instead of burying her, he laced the remains with rat poison. No more lion. The technique has spread with uneaten farmers and bush pigs poisoned for the lions' return. As the author explained, a peasant farmer cannot afford a lion gun, but anybody can afford rat poison.
 
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