Tsavo

MAASAI APPROACH TO HUNTING: LESSONS FOR MANAGERS The Maasai are among East Africa's foremost warrior tribe. Their prowess in war is legendary. .Their diet consists primarily of meat, milk and blood. Other than war, as pastoralists, they face a myriad of challenges to their herds. Their greatest predators and threat to their livelihood is the lion. To face this threat and defeat it, the Maasai would hunt and kill lions. Today, this threat has gone down with the creation of game parks and reserves where wild animals live under the protection of the state and with minimal contact and thus conflict with human beings. There are numerous managerial lessons that we can learn from the successful hunting of the Maasai. Preparation is vital. This includes knowing your own strengths and weaknesses and then your enemies. This allows you the best plan of attack. The lion is stronger than any Maasai warrior. It also mostly lives in a pride. Furthermore, it can run faster than man .knowing these, the Maasai warriors plan accordingly. They do not attack and fight a whole pride. They scatter the pride and focus on one adult lion. Not all the Maasai warriors go for the hunt. It is usually the young warriors of a particular age- set. These are strong and well trained men at their prime. They are ready to set their strength against their adversary yet not carelessly but with respect borne of their training. Another important aspect of the attack is that the warriors are psyched up to winning…

In the Man Eaters of Tsavo the British go to extend their country’s power and influence through diplomacy, trying to show off their nation’s superrealism to help increase the nation’s status. The original idea was to go help spread religion, and gain resources but the British judge the uncivilized people. Only because England felt it was their job to civilize the rest of the world. Thus, causing Patterson to reflect British attitudes not only upon the uncivilized Africans but the landscape, wild…

Compare and Contrast Essay By:Shaé McGuffey Savage lions to meek big cats. J.H. Patterson was like an explorer. He went all the way to Africa just to make a rail road. The savages he sealed with were wild lions, he explained edit all in the article “Attack.” Did you know the lions in Tsavo do not have manes. There was a man who had a different relationship with lions and his name is Kevin Richardson. Many people call him “the lion whisperer” because he was so good with the lions. …

Africa will experience great evaporation from rivers, dams and lakes Many African countries are really far from the sea’s and oceans. So those people will experience large seasonal ranges in the temperature A new study made on the Kenyan Tsavo National Park showed that "large infrequent disturbances" like a severe drought on Maasai territory at the end of the 19th century (1883-1902) led to the most devastating effects. "Severe disturbance events and rapid environmental change tend to occur…