Ethnographic weapons

[Bill M]

Me pets hold me weapons.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=tsavo

Argh!

[Yannis]

Wow Bill, that was scary!

[Bill M]

Originally Posted by Yannis

Wow Bill, that was scary!

The Tsavo (means "slaughter") lions of Kenya are some of the worst maneaters.

Two lions like this killed and ate about 140 railroad workers trying to build a bridge through Kenya in the late 1800's. The story tells how they came at night and dragged workers sleeping by campfires out into the darkness.

It is very unusual for males to hunt, especially together. Usually it is the lionesses that hunt in prides.

The two almost maneless lions assumed mythical proportions, terrorizing workers and nearly stopped the building of the railroad bridge. They eluded traps and hunters, crept through man-made thorn barriers and seemed invincible.

Finally in 1898 Col Patterson shot one and then, three weeks later, the other one. He had rugs made of their skins. Finally these were donated to the Field Museum.

http://ezinearticles.com/?African-Li...savo&id=467243

My lion measures over nine feet from tip of nose to tip of tail. He was the last legally taken Tsavo lion (mid 1980's) in Africa before they became a protected species.

[spiral]

Heres the 2 that terrorised the railroad.


linky.



Spiral

[Bill M]

Tracy can terrorize MY railroad!

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by Bill Marsh

Me pets hold me weapons.

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=tsavo

Argh!

Hi Bill,

The basket of my little doggie is near my collection. Till now, nobody was able to touch one without permission. :-)
When the day comes that will happen, I will consider to take also a hyena or even a lion like you have.

Kind regards,
Maurice

[Bill M]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Hi Bill,

The basket of my little doggie is near my collection. Till now, nobody was able to touch one without permission. :-)
When the day comes that will happen, I will consider to take also a hyena or even a lion like you have.

Kind regards,
Maurice

Maurice,

I'd rather face a stuffed lion than Denzel!

[Lew]

Now this is really scarey


Lew

[Gavin Nugent]

The scourge of the neighbourhood, funny, only the gas man has ever ventured into the yard unaided. The white boy stands about 5'10 now and loves the mail man ;-)

Gav

[fernando]

Wait till i grow up ... says Adriano

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by fernando

Wait till i grow up ... says Adriano

LOL, sweet little cat! Looks a little startled by the camera?

[Lee]

...loves the mail man

When I was in my early teens we had a dog who the vet said was part collie, part German shepherd and part coyote. I had a newspaper delivery route and it appeared to have been the highlight of the dog's day to accompany me. It was like being a bomber with a fighter escort. Any dog that decided to go for me found itself held to the ground, neck in jaw, until sufficiently humiliated.

While I was at school, my mother noticed the dog would dissappear for a few hours each day and became concerned. Paying attention, she noticed the dog 'picking up' the mailman on his route. The next day she kept the dog inside and waited to apologize to the postman for the inconvenience. "Please let the dog out, when he is along no other dog dares to come close. I just wish he would stick around for the whole route..."

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by Lee

When I was in my early teens we had a dog who the vet said was part collie, part German shepherd and part coyote. I had a newspaper delivery route and it appeared to have been the highlight of the dog's day to accompany me. It was like being a bomber with a fighter escort. Any dog that decided to go for me found itself held to the ground, neck in jaw, until sufficiently humiliated.

While I was at school, my mother noticed the dog would dissappear for a few hours each day and became concerned. Paying attention, she noticed the dog 'picking up' the mailman on his route. The next day she kept the dog inside and waited to apologize to the postman for the inconvenience. "Please let the dog out, when he is along no other dog dares to come close. I just wish he would stick around for the whole route..."

Thats a great story Lee!

When I was a kid I always wanted a pet Coyote (from watching the roadrunner cartoons). Noticed some 'stunt' ones at the beginning of the Eddy Murphy film 'Norbet' recently and wondered if anyone keeps them as pets?