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I'll never forget my first lion.
In 1898, railway workers in Tsavo, Kenya were terrorised by a pair of man-eating lions, who killed at least 28 people during a 10-month reign of terror. It ended in December when a British officer called Lt. Col. John H.
The BBC is reporting that the British military is being blamed for a plague of ferocious badgers in and around the city of Basra.
Once upon a time, we got a request to help The Countess in an online poll. For our participation, she agreed to write an erotic horror story with us in mind.
"The âman-eaters of Tsavoâ have since become the subject of numerous popular accounts, including three Hollywood films."
Any guesses what those films are without googling? I can think there was one with Michael Douglas & Val Kilmer 'the Ghost & the Darkness'?
I often start the day checking in to Gene Expression for a good jolt of Razib brain volts. Good one today.
When I was a kid, one of my favourite books was Maneaters of Kumaon by "great white hunter" Jim Corbett (who by all accounts was a rather decent sort of chap, despite being a colonial). But what I could never figure out is why the natives just didn't shoot the bloody things themselves.