Predation humans 


Lion of Tsavo naturalized in Chicago's Field Museum

Normally, lions do not attack humans. Sometimes these days that some lions attacking humans in Africa, invariably, those carrying out reprisals. The causes of human predation are systematically examined by scientists. Between 1990 and 2005, 563 villagers were attacked by lions in Tanzania, which corresponds to an increase considérable It seems they only attack because their prey become rare. In Tanzania, these attacks took place in the Selous Game Reserve, Rufiji District and Lindi region where man expands its presence and where the lion population increases through measures protection Some lions can also be forced to attack humans because of a physical problem, can not attack other prey. In 2006, a lion suspected of killing 35 personnes had defective teeth.
There existed some lions who seemed human prey. The stories of the dead and hounding of those rare specimens called man-eaters were written by their hunters. John Henry Patterson in 1907 wrote The Man-eaters of Tsavo which was shot several movies such as Bwana Devil in 1952 and The Ghost and the Darkness in 1996. The specimen is also known to Mfuwe.