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| has gloss | eng: Tsavo lions are a variety of lions (Panthera leo) living around the Tsavo River in the Tsavo National Park in Kenya. They are larger than most lions and the males do not have a mane. Two of these lions who attacked construction workers in 1898 have been known as the Tsavo maneaters, they killed more than 35 people in less than a year before being found and killed by Colonel John Patterson. References *Philp Caputo: Maneless in Tsavo. National Geographic, April 2002, 40-53. *Peyton M. West* and Craig Packer (2002): Sexual Selection, Temperature, and the Lion’s Mane. Science, Vol. 297, 1339-1343 . *Roland W. Kays and Bruce D. Patterson (2002): Mane variation in African lions and its social correlates. Can. J. Zool. Vol. 80:471-478 . *Bruce D. Patterson: The lions of Tsavo: exploring the legacy of Africa's notorious man-eaters McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004, ISBN 0071363335, ISBN 9780071363334, 231... |
| lexicalization | eng: Tsavo lion |
| instance of | (noun) large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male Panthera leo, king of beasts, lion |
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