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Tsavo Lions video

Very interesting! And well done. Thanks for posting, Jerry.

I have to chuckle when pocket protector poindexters thy to figure out this stuff. First, their "theory" cats turn man eater only if they're injured is bullshit. The Champawatt Tigress, Panar Leopard, and other cats were in the prime of life yet they turned man eaters. There was one pride of lions in Africa whose name escapes me that over the course of twenty years, feasted on over five hundred Africans.

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Originally posted by jorge:
I have to chuckle when pocket protector poindexters thy to figure out this stuff. First, their "theory" cats turn man eater only if they're injured is bullshit. The Champawatt Tigress, Panar Leopard, and other cats were in the prime of life yet they turned man eaters. There was one pride of lions in Africa whose name escapes me that over the course of twenty years, feasted on over five hundred Africans.

Those were the man-eaters of Njombe, the leopard of the rudraprayag was also a healthy man eater

Interesting video.

It does make you wonder how much applied knowledge these researchers have and how much is lab related.

At 1:27 of the video, while talking about antelope, they show a blesbok instead of an animal indigenous to Tsavo.

+1 on the maneaters of Njombe.

Also maybe 100 miles from the western boundary of the maneaters of Njombe, in the 1960's, there was a pride that killed a couple dozen humans. No members of the pride were injured prior to their starting to kill humans to my understanding.

the shit people get sucked in to smells like a democrat trying to steal a living

This is no different from zoombies telling us that MAN has started using tools 20,000 years ago.

Then a few years later someone else comes and tells that MAN has started using tools 80,000 years ago.

They know as much about why these lions killed people as much as the others mentioned above.

Good video.
Notice at one point the host cites "creative interpretation" as one of the things they do. Does that mean making stuff up?

I am pretty sure the 2009 studies was on a program on the history channel. They did do a history channel special about the lions and at least cited the 2009 test.

Interesting on the program they examined the broken canine skull and concluded the break was old when it was shoot. So, the lion did not break the cannine and just turn to man eating. I have looked for the history channel program, but have not found it on YouTube.

Question? What was the loins eating the month prior? I bet it was long pork.

This also roughly coincides with the devastating wave of rinderpest which swept from north to south across Africa and killed untold numbers of cloven-hoofed ruminants, including the lion's primary prey - buffalo. Some have speculated that the vast reduction in their primary prey led to an increase in lions taking on "unconventional" food sources such as elephants, rhino, hippo, crocodile and man - animals not impacted by rinderpest.

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Originally posted by Blacktailer:
Good video.
Notice at one point the host cites "creative interpretation" as one of the things they do. Does that mean making stuff up?

Yes.

Just like anything coming from Hollywood that says "based on real events" can mean just the name.

Everything else is made up!