Apparently they were both rare male lions without manes.
Posted on 11/03/2009 6:38:51 AM PST by Frenchtown Dan
News from 111 years ago. This is why jungle drum news failed.
Yeah, I know it’s old, but I really posted it for all of the hard-core vegans.
I think it was 2 young males who hadn’t developed manes yet.
Apparently they were both rare male lions without manes.
Also, the fact that the lions did not have the typical male mane is one of the things that made them so dangerous. Again IIRC...
Without manes these lions could slip through the thorny underbrush more readily and be all sneaky.
The lions of that region of Africa have no manes.
The males have no manes?
Must be those Kenyan ones, or Indonesia or Hawaii or Bum Fk Egypt or maybe the Chicago ones with really big mouths, but no manes and no balls.
Kenya.
Maneless male lion (Panthera leo)
Interesting.
I’ll have to check it out, I’ve always thought I was up on what’s what in the animal world, but I’ve never heard of adult African male lions without manes.
I watched a documentary where they put different fake male lions in an area with a pride of female lions. The fake males all had different lengths and colors of manes. The females preffered the males with the longest and darkest manes.
Maybe the ones that ate all those poor railroad workers in the 1800’s were just sexually frustrated, and went on a feeding binge.
I CAN HAS HOOMIN?
U can has zerobama, but he not hoomin.
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