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{{Short description|Man-eating lion}}

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| death_place = Luangwa River valley| death_cause = Bullet wounds| residence = Field Museum of Natural History| known_for = Eating six humans500kg}}}}The Mfuwe man-eating lion was one of the largest man-eating lions on record, perhaps the largest,NEWS, Museum gets a stuffed lion king, Anthony, Colarossi, September 3, 1998, Chicago Tribune,www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-09-03-9809040001-story.html, BOOK, Bright, M., Man-Eaters: Horrifying True Stories of Savage, Flesh-Eating Predators...and their Human Prey!, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2013, 978-1-4668-5969-2,books.google.com/books?id=6bR_AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT92, 92, BOOK, Animal Studies Group, Killing Animals, 61179612, What is doing the killing? Animal attacks, man-eaters, and shifting boundaries and flows of human-animal relations, Wilbert, Chris, 30–49, University of Illinois Press, 2006, 978-0-252-07290-1,books.google.com/books?id=xDk-DwZZxVEC&pg=PA33, at over {{convert|10|ft}} in length and {{convert|500|lb}} in mass. It was killed in 1991 in the Luangwa River valley, Zambia, by an American, Wayne Hosek. It had eaten six humans around Mfuwe, the valley’s main settlement.{{citation|author1-last=DeSantis|author1-first= L.R.G.|author2-last= Patterson|author2-first=B.D. |title=Dietary behaviour of man-eating lions as revealed by dental microwear textures. |date=April 19, 2017 |doi=10.1038/s41598-017-00948-5|work=Nature|volume= 7|issue= 1|page= 904|pmid= 28424462|pmc= 5430416|bibcode= 2017NatSR...7..904D|url=|doi-access=free}} The cat’s body has been on display at the Field Museum in Chicago since 1998, its specimen joining a notorious pair of man-eating lions dubbed the Tsavo lions.

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