Chapter 9
1 “It’s more of a silence”: Sergei Boyko.
2 “it killed nothing”: Schaller and Lowther, p. 329.
3 “that under similar conditions”: Ibid., p. 328.
4 “If among all the members of our primate family”: Ardrey, p. 8.
5 “Never blame the man”: Jeffers, p. 433.
6 “We heard the sound of voices”: Thomas, The Old Way, p. 101.
7 “All of the seven lion groups”: Schaller and Lowther, p. 328, fn.
8 Schaller later speculated that this may have been due: Personal
communication, August 7, 2009.
9 “a web of socially transmitted behaviours”: Thomas, The Tribe of
Tiger, 1994, p. 111.
10 “The lions around here don’t harm people”: Ibid., p. 157.
11 “Beyond our fire”: Ibid., p. 131.
