Lion in 1898: Tsavo killings
[15] [lion-0-15] What did Born Free fix in the public mind? Elsa the lioness (1960 book, 1966 film) made rehabilitation a child A specimen label at a natural history museum records where and when, not which animal is more valuable. For Lion, write 1898, “Tsavo killings,” and 2015, and leave league tables off the card. Asiatic lions are a single-forest population with a distinctive belly fold and a
What did Born Free fix in the public mind? Elsa the lioness (1960 book, 1966 film) made rehabilitation a children story. Field lion work is pride demography and conflict, not a single tame cat. The Serengeti Lion Project (Packer and successors) produced the long pride dataset that textbooks still mine.
1898 bridge-camp killings were a specific railway-and-drought story. They are a genre, not a base rate. Males take large prey and cubs of rivals. The postcard male-on-a-rock is a coalition politics, not a lazy king. Lion is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species.
Scores compare the lion with the other 23 types on speed, intelligence, range, resilience, cultural impact and ecological role. They are relative editorial marks. Resilience high means more secure; low means threatened. Vulnerable. African numbers fell through the 20th century; Asiatic lions persist as a single-forest relic in Gir.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Lion is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.1898
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 1898
- Figure to keep
- 2015
- Species
- Lion
- Line in the log
- Tsavo killings