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An outbreak of rinderpest (cattle plague) in 1898 (see 1890s African rinderpest epizootic) devastated the lions' usual prey, forcing them to find alternative food sources. The Tsavo lions may have been accustomed to finding dead humans at the Tsavo River crossing.
USA, Washington, near North Bend — Killed by a cougar while biking in the foothills near North Bend. Another bicyclist was injured, and the cougar was found and killed later that day. [42] [43] [44] 11 September 2018 Diana Bober, 55, Female USA, Oregon — Killed by a cougar in Mount Hood National Forest on the Hunchback Mountain Trail. The ...
About 1,000 people were reportedly killed each year in India during the early 1900s, with one individual Bengal tigress killing 436 people in India. [1] Tigers killed 129 people in the Sundarbans mangrove forest from 1969 to 1971. [1] Unlike leopards and lions, man-eating tigers rarely enter human habitations to acquire prey.
Hairs trapped in cavities of the infamous lions that hunted humans in Kenya’s Tsavo region in 1898 revealed the surprising prey of the massive cats, a study found.
Keri Bergere and her four friends, all competitive women cyclists in their 50s and 60s, were riding along a gravel trail through a picturesque Washington forest when two mountain lions crossed ...
Over the last 20 years, the proportion of zebras killed by lions dropped from 67 per cent to 42 per cent in the area, while the number of buffalo kills jumped from 0 per cent to 42 per cent ...
Although lions and their prey are officially protected in Tsavo National Parks, they are regularly killed by local people, with over 100 known lion killings between 2001 and 2006. [ 49 ] Between 2008 and 2013, bones and body parts from at least 2621 individual lions were exported from South Africa to Southeast Asia , and another 3437 lion ...
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