In 1898, two maneless male lions appeared in Kenya and ate 135 workers in one year, until the people were killed and the truth of cannibalism was discovered.
When the British colonized Kenya and decided to build a railway from Kenya to Uganda, they dispatched a large number of workers from India. However, as soon as the project began, the workers were attacked by two male lions one after another, and had to strike temporarily, which was strange that the two male lions did not have manes.
To solve this problem, the British sent engineer Henry Patterson to investigate, and found that the two male lions were Chavo lions, which would attack workers at night. When workers are asleep, they sneak into tents and take humans away and devour them brutally. As for why they don't have manes, it is not known.
In order to capture the two piranha lions as quickly as possible, Patterson set several traps around the railway, but they were all recognized by the two piranha lions. Patterson tried to poison the beef, but strangely enough, the two man-eating lions were not interested and did not seem to like to eat beef.
It wasn't until Patterson used a monkey carcass as bait and made a wooden frame trap that he caught the first man-eating lion. Soon after, Patterson's squad spotted another man-eating lion nearby and fired more than a dozen shots in a row before killing it. Although the two man-eating lions have fallen into law, the problem of their cannibalism has always plagued Patterson's mind.
So Patterson invited a number of zoologists, through the analysis of the corpses and bones of the two man-eating lions, found that the teeth of the two lions were seriously damaged, and speculated that they may be because of the damaged teeth, unable to prey on other animals, and can only attack humans.
Later, zoologists studied the living habits and development history of the Chavo lion, and found that the early male Chavo lion actually had a mane. However, from the fifteenth century, after the beginning of european colonial expansion, the Chavo lion was massacred by Europeans, especially the male Chavo lion, because Europeans liked to decorate various furniture with the mane of the male lion.
In order to avoid being slaughtered, the Chavo lion evolved, and since the 16th century, there have been very few male lions with long manes, even if they have manes, and in the 19th century, there is no longer a long-maned Chavo lion.
As for the reason why they eat people, it is because after the Europeans colonized Kenya, they began to sell black slaves on a large scale, and during the transportation, some black slaves who died of illness were thrown directly to the side of the road, and these bodies were eaten by the Chavo lion. Of course, there is also a reason that the habitat of the Chavo lions has been severely damaged, and they can hunt less and less prey, and they are forced to eat corpses.
Due to the long-term eating of corpses, the Chavo lions began to attack humans, attacking humans once they could not prey other prey, or were overly hungry. Therefore, the Chavo lion is also known as one of the most dangerous animals in the world, but because of their infamous reputation, few lion fans pay attention.
For the 1898 Chavo lion cannibalism incident, I personally feel that no one is right or wrong, lions, although powerful and intelligent, are always beasts, and in order to survive, they will pay any price, even if it is to attack humans.
And some human initiatives are destined to reduce the habitat of other animals, and even lead to the demise of some animals, and there will definitely be conflicts between the two sides, but how to grasp this degree is a big problem. #I'm going to make micro headlines##Open your eyes##Lion##动物 #
