#lion attacks

[ladyeckland28]

The Untold Story Behind "The Ghost and The Darkness"

In 1896, a series of horrific events unfolded in the Tsavo region of Kenya, capturing the world's attention. This true story, later dramatized in the 1996 film "The Ghost and The Darkness," recounts the chilling tale of two man-eating lions that terrorized the construction of the Uganda Railway.

The construction of the railway was a significant undertaking, employing thousands of workers. However, the project was beset by a pair of remarkably cunning and aggressive lions that preyed on the construction crews. These two felines, dubbed the "Tsavo man-eaters," were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 135 workers, causing widespread fear and disrupting the railway's progress.

The story's central figures were Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson, the engineer overseeing the railway construction, and the two notorious man-eaters. Patterson, played by Val Kilmer in the film, embarked on a harrowing quest to track down and eliminate the lions, which exhibited extraordinary intelligence and hunting prowess.

The film's depiction of the events, while dramatic, is largely faithful to the historical record. Patterson's own accounts, published in his book "The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo," provide vivid details of the hunters' pursuit and the lions' relentless attacks.

The enduring legacy of the Tsavo man-eaters lies in their ability to captivate the public imagination, serving as a powerful symbol of the dangers and mysteries that still lurk in the wild. The story continues to fascinate and inspire, serving as a testament to the ongoing struggle between humans and the untamed forces of nature.

[hoofpeet]

Doing a full pivot in 2025 into dedicating this blog to Between the Lions fanart

[sennamaticart]

Artfight attack for @possessedpasm of August and Oscar doing the twist!

[breeberrypies]

THEY TOOK VOLTRON OFF NETFLIX.

[trek-tracks]

Sorry, we can't move them

Source

[weepingtalecowboy]

I am surprised and kind of not surprised at all by how undeniably bad Hyrule's politics are

Like there is a demon knocking at your doorstep every decade or so

And instead of creating a system of actually destroying the demon again and again

You just throw your daughters at the problem and wait till a little blond boy comes and saves you

Like why is the whole kingdom so underprepared for calamity ganon

They had 10.000 years to prepare for it and instead chose to procrastinate till they had less then a year left and only then did they try to find a way to fix the situation

Like telling Zelda to get on and start zelding would have been useful when they had several thousands of years to prepare

But only like 17 years without a link to be found

Is just stupid they should have recovered the divine beasts the second that Zelda came to be or even earlier like several hundred years before the reawakening of the calamity

But that also makes total sense for a kingdom that won’t stop sacrificing daughters and relies entirely upon a single man (most Times a boy even)

And that is so fucking hilarious and pathetic

Like if I was an outside observer

I too wouldn’t want to involve myself into such a mess

[kaleidoru]

sealed emotions

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Snake Island has no snakes whatsoever, but is completely overrun by lions. It is named for the famous lion hunter Edwin Snake Jr, who was eaten there, by birds.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was attacked by a mountain lion three separate times. In the same dream, I got pulled over twice as well.

[abyssal-ilk]

hm. do you think vivienne could theoretically encourage the spirit in her blade to possess something else. something a bit bigger, maybe. like. you know.

a massive lion statue in val royeaux.

[oracleofdiscord]

now that mithrun has made his anime debut, i'm going to ask a question that's been rattling around in my brain for a bit.

when mithrun confronted the winged lion, do you think he'd learned enough about demons to realize they were all parts of one being? that he knew going in that he was confronting his abuser? or do you think he was expecting it to be fully another demon, only to get blindsided by

honestly, with the amount of detail in dungeon meshi, i wouldn't be surprised if the answer is somewhere and i missed it or forgot it - if anyone has evidence one way or the other, i'd be curious to see it

[birrdify]

HULLOHELLOHELLO !!!!been looking at ur nito design n i really needed to draw fanart he is .so wonderful and so is ur player design💔💔 they r cotton candy pink n blue i llove them a more than normal amount

[hanzajesthanza]

geralt is also a most real depiction of good quality fatherhood and great girldad representation because EVEN THOUGH witchers don’t even experience aging at the same rate as non-GMO humans, EVEN THOUGH it would be “biologically impossible,”

geralt having had been raising a pre-teen girl for maybe a few months to a year already “gave the impression of having aged,” his “face slashed by wrinkles.” the emotional toll on this man from raising she-devil ciri

and this is only the very beginning of the saga. BEFORE everything goes to shit. the wrinkles have set in

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Voldemort's patronus

"Voldemort's patronus would be a snake", "Voldemort's patronus would be a dragon", "Voldemort's patronus would be the basilisk".

Wrong!

Voldemort's patronus would be a honey badger.

[patriotismforstetriol]

It's never a stated requirement, but all the characters we meet in Spirit Animals have an animal local to the region (or at least continent) of their ancestry.

Well, nearly all. All except three two black wildcats -- waist-height, sleek panthers -- summoned by Euran boys.

And look, far as I know, Europe's not got current or historical panther populations. Maybe it's a common enough thing in legends? I dunno!

But I've got a couple of other (more absurd) explanations.

What wildcats does Europe have? It has lynxes[1][2], and it has smaller European wildcats (size of a large housecat). The Trunswick boys' dad has a lynx companion, so you'd figure the similarities would be pointed out if black wildcats were also lynxes. So I'm going to rule out melanistic lynxes (there'd be the 'long tail' issue to answer to too).

Absurd idea 1: See, I'm pretty sure Brunhild's stone adder isn't a real animal. And if there's a real snake it's based on, I think, somehow, it does not have a venom that paralyses people and turns them to stone. So Erdas has animals that don't exist on Earth. (See also: rockback whales, probably, though maybe they're just domesticated right whales.)

So maybe Eura's black wildcats are one of these Erdas-exclusive species. To stick close to realism, though, I'd like to picture them as European wildcats scaled up to a much larger size. Keep those stout housecat-esque faces. Wildcats in Erdas are just that big.

Alternatively, absurd idea 2: You know what big cat never gets mentioned in the Spirit Animals books? Snow leopards. They'll talk about tigers and leopards and jaguars and cheetahs and lions and clouded leopards and mountain lions and lynx, and that covers pretty much all the larger cats. Except for snow leopards.

So this absurd theory is that they don't have snow leopards. On Earth, the natural range of snow leopards is in Central and Northern Asia. Does the Spirit Animals series ever show us central or northern Asian ecosystems? No. Maybe Zhong actually only has South and South East Asian ecosystems (seems unfair, but hey. Anyone want the patriotismforzhong username?).

Or... it could be that the writers combined all those central/northern Asian environments with the western/northern European environments as "Eura", while south/south east Asian + southern European environments (also not mentioned in the series), maybe, have been allocated to "Zhong".

This would mean the "snow leopards" of Erdas are Euran. And for some reason they're all melanistic.

Whatever. Picture how absurdly long Worthy's tail is in this scenario.

[palilious]

headcanon that Ivan has a prosthetic leg