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[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

First off, lions rarely attack humans. Most notable repeat cases have been found to have been the result of a tooth abbess that makes it hard for the lion to hunt its usual prey. This was likely just bad timing, and a lion hanging around a camp waiting for interested prey like warthogs to also be interested in food scraps.

If the tent didn't have a full bathroom attached, then this wasn't "luxury." Full stop. Even an en suite bathroom attached to the tent doesn't cross the line into "luxury" at some camps. But that doesn't mean they won't spray "luxury" all over the website of any camp with mattresses and a lodge restaurant to justify the upcharge.

Next, he was a local, staying in an elevated tent, likely on top of his car. I doubt he paid more than $20 a night got there stay.

As for all you people saying "well good" because he was a "businessman" keep in mind that the media simplifies things like a person's whole life into a word, and would do the same to you. He owned an Off Road Centre, a place that kits out 4x4s for exactly the kind of thing he was doing, camping on the Skeleton Coast. That being said, being a person of British descent in Namibia that was a young adult during the Apartheid era....eesh.

If you feel you MUST hate this person, that's your only real avenue and you all don't even understand that. Hate will consume you, and makes you stupid. Maybe try not being a dick and accepting this is clickbait with limited detail because of only contains enough info to piss you off.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What about the lions The Ghost and The Darkness? Your saying a tooth ache caused them to kill so many men?

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's listed on their wiki as a possible reason.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_Man-Eaters

Suffocating a struggling zebra requires a healthy song jaw and teeth. One wrong tooth starts to hurt and suddenly the lion can't hunt large prey anymore. Humans are very easy to kill relative to usual lion prey, so we're the blended ham and peas at the nursing home.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

So, we can protect ourselves by giving lions better dental care.

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