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The man-eaters with bad teeth
1Department of Zoology, Field Museum, Chicago, IL 60605, USA.
The New York State Dental Journal
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
Two cases of man-eating lions feeding on large numbers of humans (1898, 1991) are discussed. The forensic dental evidence from the lions' remains and eyewitness reports indicate all three lions had serious dental/oral pathology, which may have contributed to their selection of human food over more challenging natural animal prey.