Man-eaters

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(05-12-2018, 05:29 AM)Wolverine Wrote: In Ancient India lions were quite numerous, maybe not less numerous than tigers. I red somewhere that after the army of Alexander the Great was leaving India his soldiers during their way back were more than once attacked by marodeuring lions.
Its much later during British Raj when the country became known abroad as Land of the Tiger.

I suppose the lions were able to attack in pride and yes I read this story relating the Alexandre the Great's army attacked by lions. And some caravans of goods too. Both acting in prides and being less elusive and discreet than tigers, the lions had to be spoken of them a lot in Ancient India. Nevertheless with the guns and weapons introduction they became easyer to hunt and kill and their slaugther was more massiv because they almost totally disappeared.

Same thing happened in Africa during the XIXth century. The lions attacking in prides some cattle herds (think about "Out of Africa" movie), farms, some ostrichs farms in South Africa too. "The lions of Tsavo" by Bruce D. Patterson is also a very interesting both novel and study because this book highlights the legacy of these notorious man-eaters through the particular region in which this story took place...

I believe that the man-eaters lions were more "cheeky", because they were able to seek and kill some men inside the camps and  villages while the tigers simply waited some men invading their natural habitat. By doing that, the lions were more vulnerable. Perhaps I am generalizing too. Reply