Man-Eating Animals: Interesting

W/W Godfather Posts : 363 Join date : 2008-05-03

The thread about PETA reminded me to make this topic. I was doing some research when I ran across an article about the Tsavo lions who were notorious man-eaters who are thought to have killed a score of Indian laborers and dozens of natives in the region.

What I discovered is that over the known course of history there have been many, many notorious man-eating animals where a single animal or pack of animals is responsible for hundreds of human deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-eater

^Scroll to the bottom and read about man eating tigers, and leopards, and a huge crocodile that still prays upon men today in Africa, all of whom specifically target and kill humans.

Many times modern critics are critical of the way man has struggled and fought against nature and I think those critics do not appreciate the savagery and danger of the ancient and near-modern world.

Emperor of AIDS Posts : 218 Join date : 2008-05-03

That's it, kill all animals.

Subject: Re: Man-Eating Animals: Interesting Mon May 05, 2008 11:14 am

They don't appreciate it because they live in insulated cities, far from nature. It's usually a bunch of celebrities living in posh mansions which to be built caused more deaths of animals than the average fur trader does in a lifetime.

Posts : 127 Join date : 2008-05-04

Would you rather be mauled and eaten by a tiger, or stung to death by killer bees?

Posts : 61 Join date : 2008-05-05

Tiger, that's an epic way to die. Killed by bees is just embarassing.

W/W Godfather Posts : 363 Join date : 2008-05-03

BEND wrote:: Tiger, that's an epic way to die. Killed by bees is just embarassing.

Hell yeah.

Death by tiger is something you want printed on your tombstone, death by bees makes you seem like a putzy clutz.

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Hall and Oates were right.

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that big shark what ate quint made me sad
quint was a good guy

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I saw the documentary on Gustav the crocodile when it was originally on the tube.
It is scary the size of that mother.
Watch the vid at around 3:30 to get real appreciation of the difference.

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look on youtube on the lion vs bull fight

what an mma war

Posts : 127 Join date : 2008-05-04

InternetHero wrote:

BEND wrote:: Tiger, that's an epic way to die. Killed by bees is just embarassing.

Hell yeah.

Death by tiger is something you want printed on your tombstone, death by bees makes you seem like a putzy clutz.

Bend and you make compelling arguments. Still, I'm fascinated by the prospects of dying via killer bees.

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Gustav FTW!

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cool article, I didn't know leopards were man-eaters

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Subject: Re: Man-Eating Animals: Interesting Sat May 30, 2009 12:27 pm

I'm Firsty