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The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths.
C-Boy (died June 2018, age ~14) was a lion in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. [1] [2] He is known for having survived an attack from a pack of three male lions, nicknamed "The Killers", in August 2009. [3] He later nearly succumbed to infection after the attack. A decade later, C-Boy was found dead due to unknown causes. [1]
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 Tsavo lions were maneless, like this adult male lion. It's not uncommon for lions in dry areas of Kenya, such as Samburu and Tsavo, to be maneless. - David Sewell/Alamy Stock Photo
The man, identified as Muhammad Azeem, was attempting to film the video with the lion at a breeding farm in the nation’s Punjab province, reported the Tribune Express News newspaper.
Researchers captured a record-breaking swim by two male lions through crocodile-infested waters as the big cats sought mates and new territory.
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway East Africa in 1898.
The video above, filmed at the MalaMala Private Game Reserve in South Africa, shows how a tiny freshwater crab managed to survive a lion encounter. In the video, filmed by park rangers, the four ...