LION Attacks On HUMAN | MAN-EATING Lions | Tanzania BIG CATS National Geographic Documentary 2020

LION Attacks On HUMAN | MAN-EATING Lions | Tanzania National Geographic Documentary 2020
✳️GET PAID TO USE YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/GetPaidUsingYouTube
✳️GRAB 16,000 Woodworking Plans Here: https://bit.ly/WoodWorkiingPlans
✳️SUBSCRIBE for more lion documentaries: https://bit.ly/3aoWTtN
Kings of Lions Documentary: https://youtu.be/EsvqraLleDs

In encounters with the king of beasts, an unarmed person is “one of the most helpless creatures,” notes Charles Guggisberg in Simba: the Life of the Lion. “Man cannot run as fast as a zebra or a gazelle, he has not the horns of the sable antelope or the tusks of the warthog, and he cannot deal terrific blows like the giraffe.” People are, in other words, easy pickings. Even though Africa’s lion populations have been drastically reduced in the past decades, lions still regularly eat people; it’s not uncommon for them to kill more than 100 people a year in Tanzania alone.

Many man-eaters are wounded or old; some have been deprived of natural prey sources; others may simply have developed a fondness for human flesh. Most are nameless, but a few of the most notorious have been rather colorfully christened: Namvelieza, or The Cunning One, killed 43 people near Kasawa, Zambia. Tanzania’s Paper Lion got his name because he seemed to drift from victim to victim randomly, like a scrap of paper floating in the breeze.

This list of the most famous man-eaters includes mostly males, but females are actually responsible for more killings, according to University of Minnesota lion expert Craig Packer. However, lionesses tend to eat people in isolated instances, then return to their normal diet, while males “are more likely to become recidivists,” Packer says. The worst-case scenario, he says, is when a whole pride of males and females starts feeding on people: these lions are the most “persistent” threat to their human neighbors.