The maned African lions do
The lions of Tsavo National Park is unique in many respects. To begin, the males have a mane typical characteristic of this species usually, a fact often attributed to the dense vegetation complete draft of their habitat, which makes long hair a real obstacle to free movement. As a study in the field has emerged recently, the lions are known only to move in social groups with a single male-boasts more normal to have one or two youngpests as alpha male.
A case of testosterone
Amazingly, scientists now believe there may be a cause of these peculiarities; testosterone. During the test, the Lions of Tsavo showed significantly high levels of male sex hormone, which could be responsible for their loss of hair and the major territorial behavior.
140 dead in a year of 2 male Tsavo Lions
This theory would also explain the aggression famous lions of Tsavo, whichlions has earned them a reputation as the most ferocious predators in Africa. The most famous story involves just two lions have eaten their way through 140 workers of the railways in a single year during the 19th century! The workers who survived quickly decided that the lions had to be ghosts or demons.
A series of increasingly ingenious traps have been designed by the chief engineer, Colonel JH Patterson, but every time they dodged lions, strikes indicates with certainty this week defending the land.
TheGhost and the Darkness Falls
Patterson was finally able to bag the lion before it hides a fragile wooden platform baited with a dead donkey. The second man-eater lion was sent a little later, even if it took six bullets to bring the massive beast down. Research has shown that the Lions have seriously damaged teeth, which may have led to abandon their normal prey and become man-eaters.
Patterson wrote a bestseller about the experience, "theman-eaters of Tsavo ', which was later transformed quite freely as the Spirit and darkness.
Do not mess with the African lion of Tsavo
Although there is nothing comparable to this, many premises have been attacked in the last decade to be a little 'cautious when walking in Chaimu Crater, Mzima Springs and Luggard Falls. Hormonal or not Tsavo lions are not joking.
How to hunt for elusive Tsavo lions
Tsavo lions in Africavery difficult to achieve and will require much patience and supervision of knowledge of animals to be able to see a pride. Vegetation largest Tsavo also hinders the observation of lions. The most important story to tell sighs presence of a predator in an area within the park are:
Vultures • Bicycle excited in air
• Sudden other predators like hyenas scan
• alarm cries of birds suddenly while flying
• In forested areas, a focus group and criesmoving uncomfortably monkeys on the foliage, could be an indicator of the presence of a leopard.
• Look at the lion tracks on dirt roads, sometimes these guys, like walks along the road away from the heavy grass height.
• sudden change of the ears of a gazelle and an upright posture straight section.
• Even in the aspect of bushes and rocky outcrop areas, lions, probably Hide from the Sun under shrubs or loungingthe sun on raised ground.
While attention to these signals and can be happier than the next group. They have a great experience Lion Safari Tsavo.
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