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  2. The Veldt (short story) - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] The music video, released after Bradbury's death, is dedicated to him and shows a young boy and girl wandering through an African veldt and witnessing several plot points from the story including vultures, screams, and a lion eating a carcass implied to be one of the parents due to glasses. The original title of the story, "The World ...

  3. Damnatio ad bestias - Wikipedia

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    Lions were rare in Ancient Rome and human sacrifice was banned there by Numa Pompilius in the 7th century BC, according to legend. Damnatio ad bestias appeared there not as a spiritual practice but rather a spectacle. In addition to lions, other animals were used for this purpose, including dogs, wolves, bears, leopards, tigers, hyenas, and ...

  4. Tsavo Man-Eaters - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Mountain lions are elusive, looking for food, and more likely ...

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    “Fawns are a major food resource for mountain lions, particularly the young, young animals that are not really good hunters yet – and for the females that have dependent kittens,” said Stoner.

  6. Surplus killing - Wikipedia

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    A stoat surplus killing chipmunks (Ernest Thompson Seton, 1909) Multiple sheep killed by a cougar. Surplus killing, also known as excessive killing, henhouse syndrome, [1] [2] or overkill, [3] is a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then they either cache or abandon the remainder.

  7. PHOTOS: Feisty lions tussle over kill - AOL

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    These fierce lions decided to take the term "food fight" quite literally, as three of them violently tussled over their prey amid a screen of dust. Captured by Gordon Donovan in Etosha National ...

  8. Man-eating lions: The science behind 'Beast' - AOL

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    Idris Elba is back in theaters, starring in the new survival thriller, Beast. Elba plays Dr. Nate Samuels, a man on a vacation to a South African nature preserve with his two daughters. The trip ...

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