How did native Africans hunt lions?

Native Africans do not hunt lions. Because the investment is high and the return is low.

African natives who have not had much contact with civilized society often use poison-coated bows and arrows when hunting. These homemade bows and arrows are very weak and cannot kill larger prey with just the trauma of shooting. Therefore, they must be used in conjunction with poison to make the prey Only when they were too weak to escape due to poisoning would they kill their prey with a spear.

By the way, the poison they use is not very effective. Sometimes it takes up to several hours to poison the prey. Therefore, their hunting method is to shoot the prey with poison arrows first, and then keep tracking the escaping prey. , can only catch the prey when it can no longer run away.

Under such conditions, it is difficult for native Africans to hunt large carnivores like lions, because lions will fight back instead of running away after being poisoned by arrows. The risk of using a poor-quality spear against a lion is too high.