Mfuwe man-eating lion
.jpg) Lion displayed at the Field Museum | |
| Other name(s) | The Man-Eater of Mfuwe Lion of Mfuwe |
|---|---|
| Species | Lion |
| Died | 1991 Luangwa River valley |
| Cause of death | Bullet wounds |
| Known for | Eating six humans |
| Residence | Field Museum of Natural History |
| Weight | 500 lb (230 kg) |
The Mfuwe man-eating lion was one of the largest man-eating lions on record, perhaps the largest,[1][2][3] at over 10 feet (3.0 m) in length and 500 pounds (230 kg) in mass. It was killed in 1991 in the Luangwa River valley, Zambia, by an individual from California. It had eaten six humans around Mfuwe, the valley's main settlement.[2][4] The cat's body has been on display at the Field Museum in Chicago since 1998, its specimen joining a notorious pair of man-eating lions dubbed the Tsavo lions.[1]
References
- ^ a b Colarossi, Anthony (September 3, 1998). "Museum gets a stuffed lion king". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ a b Bright 2013, p. 92.
- ^ Wilbert 2006, p. 33.
- ^ DeSantis & Patterson 2017.
Sources
- Tucker, Abigail (December 16, 2009), "The Most Ferocious Man-Eating Lions", Smithsonian
- Wilbert, Chris (2006). "What is doing the killing? Animal attacks, man-eaters, and shifting boundaries and flows of human-animal relations". In Animal Studies Group (ed.). Killing Animals. University of Illinois Press. pp. 30–49. ISBN 978-0-252-07290-1. OCLC 61179612.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Bright, M. (2013). Man-Eaters: Horrifying True Stories of Savage, Flesh-Eating Predators...and their Human Prey!. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4668-5969-2.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - DeSantis, L.R.G.; Patterson, B.D. (April 19, 2017), "Dietary behaviour of man-eating lions as revealed by dental microwear textures.", Nature, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00948-5 Sci Rep 7, 904
External links
- Lion of Mfuwe at Field Museum
- The Man-Eater of Mfuwe, Tetrapod Zoology, Scientific American blog network, 2012