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As a result, maneless lion numbers have steadily dropped over the years.

One interesting case study is the maneless male Tsavo lion.

Like the Tsavo man-eaters, it too was a maneless male.

The lions were maneless like many others in the Tsavo area and both were exceptionally large.

Females are redder in colour, with shorter hair, a short black beard, and are maneless.

In the Pendjari National Park area almost all males are maneless or have very weak manes.

Heavily maned lions usually live in well-protected tourist areas or parks, while the habitats of maneless lions are generally unprotected.

These lions from northeastern Africa are often included in P. nubica and would include the Tsavo lions, a population known for many maneless males.

During the next nine months of construction, two maneless male Tsavo lions stalked the campsite, dragging Indian workers from their tents at night and devouring them.

The maneless zebra (Equus quagga borensis) is a subspecies of the plains zebra, spread over the northern parts of eastern Africa.

Sardinian wild boar Sus scrofa meridionalis: A small, almost maneless subspecies from Corsica, Sardinia and Andalusia.

Mr. Gnoske and Dr. Kerbis Peterhans believe that maneless lions have been depicted as anomalies because much of the earlier research was limited to a few habitats.

Sus scrofa lybica: A small, pale and almost maneless subspecies from Caucasus to the Nile Delta, Turkey and the Balkans.

Life-sized, it stood upon a high marble plinth, and showed the Goddess seated upon a short bench; to either side of her sat a maneless lion, and her hands rested on their heads.

While the real man-eaters were, like all lions from the Tsavo region, a more aggressive, maneless variety, those used for filming were actually the least aggressive available, for both safety and aesthetic reasons.

There are some cases of maneless nomadic lions living on high plateaus that do not defend territories, Mr. Gnoske said, and the reason seems to be low levels of male hormones, like testosterone.

Cave paintings of extinct European cave lions almost exclusively show animals with no manes, suggesting that either they were maneless, or that the paintings depict lionesses as seen hunting in a group.

Hunting mainly at night, a pair of maneless male lions stalked and killed at least 28 Indian and African workers - although some accounts put the number of victims as high as 135.

Mr. Gnoske and Dr. Kerbis Peterhans had learned of many accounts of elevation and latitude influencing mane development, so they set out to record the locations of more than 60 maneless lions.

The maneless lion is found on the banks of the Dinder; all that I saw, in the shape of game, in the neighbourhood of that river and the Rahad, were a few hippopotami and crocodiles.

Ever since two maneless lions hunted, killed and ate more than 100 railroad workers in Kenya in 1898, the cats have attracted scientists and journalists - two groups that love nothing more than turning myths into certainties.

Manchurian wild boar Sus scrofa ussuricus: A very large (largest subspecies of the wild boar), almost maneless subspecies with a thick coat that is blackish in the summer and yellowish-grey in the winter.

Traveling both on safari and with a team of scientists, the author explores the harsh yet teeming landscape of Tsavo National Park in Kenya, home to strange maneless lions that may or may not be an unrecognized subspecies.

Maneless male lions have also been reported from Senegal and from Tsavo East National Park in Kenya, and the original male white lion from Timbavati also was maneless.

The maneless zebra was first described in 1954 by Tony Henley, then a Ranger in the Game Department of the Uganda Protectorate based in Moroto and in charge of Karamoja District.