-as of [20 NOVEMBER 2024]–
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(imagine an african colony settled by 21st century harvard alums)
(the only requirement was that you had to smoke pot)
*it’d make no concessions to the common man*
(that was the jesus / jim jones mistake. john galt had the right idea. too bad he only exists in literary form. who is he anyway? nietzsche would know.)
(great, now that you know what the inside of my brain looks like, let us proceed…)
the lion didn’t evolve because there was no need.
he remains the king of the african jungle.
lions can still more easily kill a human than a human can a lion,
(even with all of our weapons at hand)
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while lions do not usually hunt people, some (usually males) seem to seek out human prey
well-publicized cases include the tsavo maneaters, where 28 railway workers building the kenya-uganda railway were taken by lions over 9 months during the construction of a bridge over the tsavo river in kenya in 1898
and the 1991 mfuwe man-eater, which killed six people in the laungwa river valley in zambia.
(*cue ‘the continuing story of bungalow bill’)
in both, the hunters who killed the lions wrote books detailing the animals’ predatory behavior (in glowing admiration of a fellow hunter).
the Mfuwe and Tsavo incidents bear similarities:
the lions in both incidents were larger than normal, lacked manes, and seemed to suffer from tooth decay
The infirmity theory, including tooth decay, is not favored by all researchers;
an analysis of teeth and jaws of man-eating lions in museum collections suggests that, while tooth decay may explain some incidents, prey depletion in human-dominated areas is a more likely cause of lion predation on humans.
in their analysis of tsavo and man-eating generally, kerbis peterhans and gnoske acknowledge that sick or injured animals may be more prone to man-eating, but that the behavior is “not unusual, nor necessarily ‘aberrant’” where the opportunity exists; if inducements such as access to livestock or human corpses are present, lions will regularly prey upon human beings. The authors note that the relationship is well-attested amongst other pantherines and primates in the paleontological record.
The lion’s proclivity for man-eating has been systematically examined. American and Tanzanian scientists report that man-eating behavior in rural areas of Tanzania increased greatly from 1990 to 2005. At least 563 villagers were attacked and many eaten over this period — a number far exceeding the more famed “Tsavo” incidents of a century earlier. The incidents occurred near Selous National Park in Rufiji District and in Lindi Province near the Mozambican border. While the expansion of villagers into bush country is one concern, the authors argue that conservation policy must mitigate the danger because, in this case, conservation contributes directly to human deaths. Cases in Lindi have been documented where lions seize humans from the center of substantial villages.
Author Robert R. Frump wrote in The Man-eaters of Eden that Mozambican refugees regularly crossing Kruger National Park at night in South Africa are attacked and eaten by the lions; park officials have conceded that man-eating is a problem there. Frump believes thousands may have been killed in the decades after apartheid sealed the park and forced the refugees to cross the park at night. For nearly a century before the border was sealed, Mozambicans had regularly walked across the park in daytime with little harm.
Packer estimates more than 200 Tanzanians are killed each year by lions, crocodiles, elephants, hippos, and snakes, and that the numbers could be double that amount, with lions thought to kill at least 70 of those. Packer and Ikanda are among the few conservationists who believe western conservation efforts must take account of these matters not just because of ethical concerns about human life, but also for the long term success of conservation efforts and lion preservation.
A man-eating lion was killed by game scouts in Southern Tanzania in April 2004. It is believed to have killed and eaten at least 35 people in a series of incidents covering several villages in the Rufiji Delta coastal region. Dr Rolf D. Baldus, the GTZ wildlife programme coordinator, commented that it was likely that the lion preyed on humans because it had a large abscess underneath a molar which was cracked in several places. He further commented that “This lion probably experienced a lot of pain, particularly when it was chewing.” GTZ is the German development cooperation agency and has been working with the Tanzanian government on wildlife conservation for nearly two decades. As in other cases this lion was large, lacked a mane, and had a tooth problem.
The “All-Africa” record of man-eating generally is considered to be not Tsavo, but the lesser-known incidents in the late 1930s through the late 1940s in what was then Tanganyika (now Tanzania). George Rushby, game warden and professional hunter, eventually dispatched the pride, which over three generations is thought to have killed and eaten 1,500 to 2,000 in what is now Njombe district.
man-eater is a colloquial term for an animal that adds humans to its diet. although human beings can be attacked by many kinds of animals, man-eaters are those that have incorporated human flesh into their usual diet. most reported cases of man-eaters have involved wolves, tigers, leopards, lions, crocodiles, alligators, and sharks.
(however, they are by no means the only predators that will attack humans if given the chance
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a wide variety of species have also been known to take humans as prey, including…
the brown bear,
black bear,
polar bear,
sloth bear,
chimpanzees, large constricting snakes (especially the reticulated python, the african rock python, and green anaconda), komodo dragon, spotted and striped hyenas, dingoes, leopard seals, jaguars, cougars, some species of bony fish like piranha and candiru (which is parasitic), goonch catfish and the african army ant)
*talk about turning the tables!*
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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