My name is Cameron Butler and this is the What If It's True Podcast.

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The following is a few paragraphs from a book titled Death in the Long Grass

by author Peter Hathaway Kepp Stick. There will be a link in the description

if you'd like to buy this book from Amazon. One other thing before I get started.

I want you to think about this. The animals that we're about to hear about in these few paragraphs

are actually pets to some people in the United States, possibly in your neighborhood.

Over the years since the first Europeans began writing about African game,

there has been a consistent controversy over just why lions and other phila day become man

eaters. In researching this book among many hundreds of previous works that date back as far

as the first decade of the 18th century, I have noticed one conclusion as to the calls of man

eating that seems to recur. Almost without exception until the publication of Patterson's book

on the Savo Lions in 1907, man eaters were traditionally reported to be poor, broken down,

tooth-worn, crippled, brutes, who ate people for a living only because they had been injured by

nasty hunters, porcupine, quills, and the like. The fact is, this is not necessarily true.

It is my experience in belief that there are many classes of man eating lions,

although injured carnivores who cannot fend for themselves in a normal hunting manner may,

indeed, turn to sneaking a native or two between meals, most people praying lions are generally

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