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The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths. While the terrors of man-eating lions were not new in the British public perception, the Tsavo Man-Eaters became one of the most notorious instances of dangers posed to Indian and native African workers of the Uganda Railway.
The lion is the most social of all wild felid species, living in groups of related individuals with their offspring. Such a group is called a "pride". Groups of male lions are called "coalitions". [97] Females form the stable social unit in a pride and do not tolerate outside females. [98]
Lions are depicted on vases dating to about 2600 BCE that were excavated near Lake Urmia in Iran. [107] The lion was an important symbol in Ancient Iraq and is depicted in a stone relief at Nineveh in the Mesopotamian Plain. [108] [109] The lion makes repeated appearances in the Bible, most notably as having fought Samson in the Book of Judges.
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Genetic studies indicate that the living lion is the closest living relative of P. atrox and P. spelaea. [24] Genome-wide sequencing of modern lions and Eurasian cave lions suggests that the lineage of the cave lion and American lion diverged from that of the modern lion around 500,000 years ago. [26]
The Man-eater of Mfuwe was a sizeable male Southern African lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) responsible for the deaths of six people. Measuring 3.2 metres (10 ft) long and standing at 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) tall at the shoulders, with a weight of 249 kilograms (500 lbs), [1] it is the largest man-eating lion on record.
The best known Biblical account featuring lions comes from the Book of Daniel (chapter 6), where Daniel is thrown into a den of lions and miraculously survives. [ citation needed ] A lesser known Biblical account features Samson who kills a lion with his bare hands, later sees bees nesting in its carcass, and poses a riddle based on this ...
The name "liger", a portmanteau of lion and tiger, was coined by the 1930s. [4] "Ligress" is used to refer to a female liger, on the model of "tigress". In 1825, G. B. Whittaker made an engraving of liger cubs born in 1824. [3] The parents and their three liger offspring are also depicted with their trainer in a 19th-century painting in the ...