Labels: text | screenshot OCR: MAN-EATING LION HIS ORNATE PANEL, depicting a lion devouring a man, dates from the 8th century BC, and comes from the Assyrian city of Nimrud in what is now Iraq. The popular belief that lions and tigers attack humans unprovoked is, however, largely a false one. Big cats may become man-eaters when they are old or injured and unable to hunt other prey, or when they have cubs to feed, but they are seldom habitual killers of humans. SEE ALSO
