Inflated man-eating lion numbers from the Lunatic Line

This interesting little piece from NPR shows that the lions I wrote about in my Lunatic Line article (see previous post) probably ate only 35 people — not 135, as the guy who shot the lions claimed. That’s still a lot of people. Amazingly, scientists figured this out by analyzing the “carbon and nitrogen in [the lions’] teeth and hair.”

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