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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.
The lions killed at least 28 people, including those working on the Kenya-Uganda Railway, beginning in April 1898 before civil engineer Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson shot the massive cats.
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.
Between 1990 and 2004, lions killed more than 560 people in Tanzania, mostly during harvest season in crop fields and in areas where natural prey is scarce. [96] In February 2018, lions killed a suspected poacher near Kruger National Park. [97] [98] In February 2018, Kevin Richardson took three lions for a walk at Dinokeng Game Reserve in South ...
Fewer than 20,000 survive in the wild, a reduction of 60% in the last two decades. There were estimated to be 1.2 million lions in 1880. [9] This decline is mainly due to poaching of them and their prey, further influenced by excessive legal trophy hunting and habitat destruction. [10]
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 ...
The Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary recently announced that two lions named Liso and José were killed when poachers sneaked past armed guards. Poachers killed 2 lions who were recently freed from the ...
The American lion (Panthera atrox (/ ˈ p æ n θ ər ə ˈ æ t r ɒ k s /), with the species name meaning "savage" or "cruel", also called the North American lion) is an extinct pantherine cat native to North America during the Late Pleistocene from around 130,000 to 12,800 years ago.