The Man Eaters

In “Attack of the Man Eaters”, and “Meet the Lion Whisperer”, the writers say that there is a tragedy or sad fate for lions. The fate in the “Attack of the Man Eaters”, is the lions had injuries with its mouth that made it hard to hunt and eat. In “Meet the Lion Whisperer”, the fate is once the lions get to big for petting zoos, some get sedated for easy targets for hunting and medicine. From these examples, you can see the authors have compared the lions tragedies in both stories.
In the story “Attack of the Man Eaters”, the lions had a bad tragedy. The lions had an injury with their teeth and jaws, which caused them to not be able to hunt prey. This lead to feasting on the humans. There was also a bad drought and disease which was also a problem with food. The text states, “They learned that one of the lions suffered from injuries to its teeth and jaws, which made hunting large
They get too big to be in petting zoos. Afterwards, some get sent to zoos or circuses, but others get put into canned hunting or made into medicine. Canned hunting is when people put the lions in fenced in areas to make the easy targets. Then, they are hunted down and sold for a lot of money. The text states, “Some end up in zoos and circuses; others are sent to Asia, where their bones are used in folk medicine” (21). The author states, “…which lions are placed in fenced in areas and sometimes sedated to make them easier targets” (21). The author put this in the story to show what happens to them after they get older and how that relates to a sad fate.
In both stories, the lions each have a sad fate. In “Attack of the Man Eaters”, the lions had mouth injuries which made it difficult to hunt and eat. In “Meet the Lion Whisperer”, the fate was how the lions get hunted for medicine. The authors put these two articles in there to show the difference of the lions and their