Lion-baiting is a blood sport involving the baiting of lions against dogs. Antiquity has examples where groups of dogs defeat the 'king of beasts', the...
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The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion, Atlas lion and Egyptian lion. It lived...
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centuries. Bear-baiting was very popular from the 12th until the 19th century. From the 16th century, many bears were maintained for baiting. In its best-known...
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duck-baiting, hog-baiting, human-baiting, hyena-baiting, lion-baiting, monkey-baiting, rat-baiting, and wolf-baiting. Much of what is known about baiting comes from...
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destroyed by a lion that was rushing down from Mount Olympus. The Romans used Barbary lions from North Africa for lion-baiting, and lions from Greece for...
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fighting Donkey-baiting Duck-baiting Fox hunting Hare coursing Hog-baiting Hyena-baiting Insect fighting Jackal coursing Lion-baiting Monkey-baiting Organized...
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trophies. Activists also asked African countries to ban bow hunting, lion baiting, and hunting from hunting blinds. Global media and social media reaction...
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Mastiff-like dogs were used in the blood sports of bull-baiting, bear-baiting, lion-baiting, and dog fighting, as well as for hunting and guarding. Dogs...
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Gujarat Lions all used lions in their logos. MMA fighter Amanda Nunes uses the ring name "The Lioness" Lion-baiting Winged lion Piraeus Lion Medici lions Manticore...
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and angling. Baiting is a ubiquitous practice in both recreational (especially angling) and commercial fishing, but the use of live bait can be deemed...
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the moat area beside the Lion Tower. An overhead platform was added for viewing of the lions by the royals, during lion baiting, for example in the time...
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George Wombwell (category Lion tamers)
dog dealer Ben White's assistant Bill George, arranged a Lion-baiting between his docile lion Nero and six bulldogs. Nero refused to fight but when Wombwell...
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This ranges from rat-baiting and badger-baiting to bear-baiting and lion-baiting. There are even some tales of human-baiting.[citation needed] Animals...
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Animals in ancient Greece and Rome (section Lions)
wrote that Indians showed Alexander the Great powerful dogs bred for lion-baiting. Tortoiseshells may have been luxury goods imported from other parts...
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Lion hunting is the act of hunting lions. Lions have been hunted since antiquity. In Ancient Egypt, lion hunts were usually reserved for pharaohs. These...
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from Benedict. She leaves him tied to the chair in front of the window baiting in one of the Kronosaurs who attacks and destroys the glass killing itself...
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Kimba the White Lion, known in Japan as Jungle Emperor (Japanese: ジャングル大帝, Hepburn: Janguru Taitei), is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated...
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The Man-eater of Mfuwe was a sizeable male Southern African lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) responsible for the deaths of six people. Measuring 3.2 metres...
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for The Lion in Winter quoted from a review in Cosmopolitan praising the performances of Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn as "Oscar bait outings."...
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from White, and a menagerie owner called George Wombwell, involving lion-baiting by Bulldogs. George is said to have unsuccessfully attempted to dissuade...
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Blood sports such as bear-baiting, bull-baiting and cockfights were popular, and there is even a recorded instance of lion-baiting in 1604, when three mastiffs...
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Gir National Park (section Asiatic lion)
means that only those lions were counted that were "spotted" visually. Use of "live bait" (a prey that is alive and used as a bait) for the exercise, though...
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Hunting strategy (section Baiting)
to ensure that baiting is legal in the area. While most places allow baiting, some areas still deem it illegal to bait wildlife. Baiting is pretty simple...
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A bait ball, or baitball, occurs when small fish swarm in a tightly packed spherical formation about a common centre. It is a last-ditch defensive measure...
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Tiger (redirect from Tiger-baiting)
offspring of a female tiger and a male lion and the tigon the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion. The lion sire passes on a growth-promoting gene...
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Dog fighting (category Baiting (blood sport))
war, introduced bull baiting and bear baiting to the rest of the British population. In later years, bull-baiting and bear-baiting became a popular source...
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Beast (2022 American film) (category Films about lions)
Nate on a walkie-talkie, warning him to stay away, saying the lion is using Martin as bait to lure the others out. As the radio is out of range to contact...
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The Man-eaters of Tsavo (category Books about lions)
type of antelope, T. oryx pattersonianus. Eventually, the first lion is defeated by baiting it with a tethered donkey while Patterson keeps watch from an...
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The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea), also known as the Australian sea-lion or Australian sealion, is a species of sea lion that is the only endemic...
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