During this period, a single pride of fifteen lions killed approximately 1,500 people before George Rushby, a legendary British elephanthunter-turned-game-warden, exterminated the pride, one by one. It took him a year. “If a man-eater continues to kill and eat people for any length of time,” wrote Rushby in his memoir, No More the Tusker, “it develops an almost supernatural cunning. This often makes the hunting down and killing of such a lion a lengthy and difficult task.”
