What goes around, comes around.

God I hate lions being "naturally" maimed.

Thanks, my VERY dear friend for sharing

Just wasn't his day.

I'll bet he felt like he shouldn't have gotten out of bed that morning.

The fifth picture shows the Spineous processes sticking out. He was starving and emaciated.
The Buffalo did him a favour.

The lion would have been a great trophy, really old but still sporting a beautiful shaggy mane. On the other hand probably that swift trampling was a more merciful way to go than begin eaten alive by hyenas.

There's no real good way to go for a lion.

Roger Whittal once told me that lions live a hard contact life ... easy to get get badly injured or killed I presumed ..

On one of the wildlife shows they showed video of a good maned lion all by himself struggling to hold on to a wildebeest he had caught. He couldn't get a good bite on it's neck and finally was left on the ground with the wildebeest running off. They didn't mention this on the video but I was thinking that lion had probably been evicted from a pride and hadn't eaten in awhile leaving him too weak to bring down his prey when he really had a good position on it to do so.