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| Subject: | | Re: The Lions of Tsavo |
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MJLehde
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Tue, Nov 3 2009, 9:35am
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The land around Tsavo is filled with thick thorn bushes and I've read that some think the reason that the lions of Tsavo have no manes is that they would make moving through the thickets much mre difficult. Over time the theory goes the lions with the smaller manes and finally no maes would be more likely to prosper and reproduce. As for the size of the lions, although the mounted Tsavo lions in the Field Museum appear rather small in life they were actually larger, longer and heavier, than average. One of the reasons they appear so different from other mounted lions is that they had been rugs while in Patterson's possession and the Field Museum had to mount the rugs on frames. The skulls of the lions, complete with bullet damage, are also in the museum and on dislpay. |
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