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hearing locates a herd of zebra, for example. He then 
gets down wind from what he hopes will be his next 
meal and stalks to within rushing distance. He can 
outrun a zebra for a short distance, and when within 
striking distance he makes a sudden dash. I think 
that the zebra is thrown by the lion’s spring and then 
killed by a bite in the back of the neck, but this im- 
pression is from deduction and not from observation. 
I have seen a lot of animals that lions had killed but 
J never saw a lion in the act of killing. In fact, the 
methods which lions use in hunting are not known in 
detail from observation, for not enough instances have 
ever been witnessed and recorded to make the basis 
for any general statement which could be considered 
scientifically accurate. 
When he has captured his animal the lion will eat 
and then lie near it perhaps all night, perhaps all the 
next day, if he is not disturbed, eating as he desires. 
If he leaves his kill the jackals, hyenas, and vul- 
tures will clean it up immediately, and as the lion 
kills for food and not for sport or the pleasure of 
killing, he is content with one kill as long as the meat 
lasts. 
The lion group, as I have designed it for the Roose- 
velt African Hall, will show in the foreground a 
trickling stream where the lions have come at dawn 
to drink, while, at a distance on the plains, the vul- 
tures and jackals are approaching the kill the lions 
have just left. 
Lion hunters are not agreed about how much lions 
depend on sight, on sound, and on smell. It is not 
