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astinkyfart 03-Nov-09, 13:39	Man eating lions kill at least 35 This is an old story but it has been brought back up as the first estimates were higher. If you haven't seen the movie based on this event you should. It's a great movie. It's a little older but still good. It's called "the Ghost and the Darkness" news.yahoo.com
musket33r 03-Nov-09, 13:54	I read they 'only killed 72'
zorroloco 03-Nov-09, 15:32	mmmmmm long pig! yum!
illinawek 03-Nov-09, 15:45	Great movie. The lions are mounted and in the Chicago Field Museum, behind the escalator in the basement. There is a pair of them and they were brothers. They lived in a cave which is really unusual for a lion. They didn't have manes. The cave was strewn with human bones, which had become their preferred meal.
kingofpawns 04-Nov-09, 18:26	I skimmed over the article in PNAS and I'm highly skeptical for several reasons. Baysian statistical analysis can be problematic without appropriate validation. That is, the analysis has to be applied to bones for which you know the actual diet and it has to be a complex diet. I haven't seen where this has been done. Second, the analysis suggests that one lion primarily ate people, while the other stood by an rarely ate. Supposedly, they went hunting, killed a person to ate and one of them typically went off hunting something else. This probably nuts. It indicates the analysis is faulty. Finally, it does not rule out that they killed people they did not eat. Anyone who grew up on a farm prior to the 80s knows that if a fox or mink gets into your chicken house it is likely to kill most if not all of the chickens without eating them. Mink, for example, a simply nature's pathological killers. So, until the more conclusion evidence is provided, I'll stick with the old 135 count.

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