Maneless

"Given the flat-eyed, maneless aliens" precarious position directly in front of the Borokii line, their intentions were clear enough to every soldier of the Januul. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This data shows, surprisingly perhaps, that the maneless Tsavo lions do not differ from 'normal' eastern or southern African lions, and that the Tsavo lions do not warrant special taxonomic status (Dubach et al. 2005). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Contrary to popular belief, most full-grown GTE lions are not maneless; 87% had manes, with 49% possessing good manes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the Tsavo lions, for example, single maneless males defend prides of more than 7 females, and there are various other deviations among the species. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Tom Gnoske and Julian Kerbis Peterhans have proposed that Buffalo lions are a basal lion lineage, directly descended from the maneless lions of the Pleistocene, and in many respects distinct from Panthera leo proper (Gnoske & Peterhans 2000, von Buol 2000). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

The maneless Tsavo lions could be relict -- relict is the wrong word -- cave lions, which were depicted as maneless; it could be they're all lions and the species is wildly variable, too, and I'm curious if anyone knows. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

Quick response to Graydon's comment: it has indeed been suggested that the maneless Tsavo lions are a distinct, or even relict, type of lion, informally dubbed the 'Buffalo lion'. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

A great beast with three heads -- a white dragon, a goat, and a maneless lion, or so it appeared. ❋ Gloriagoodbody (2005)

Once we drove off a maneless lion and lioness from a dead buffalo, which had been in the last stage of a decline. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I could not see that he had a mane; if he had not, then even the maneless variety can use their tongues. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Life-sized, it stood upon a high marble plinth, and showed the Goddess seated upon a short bench; to either side of her sat a maneless lion, and her hands rested on their heads. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)

He told her of an Englishwoman whom he had met in the Masai veldt, hunting for maneless lions -- an amazon in breeches and boots, at the head of her own safari. ❋ Stephen French Whitman (N/A)

Jay, as she passed that factory every day, watched with interest the progress of the grey ghost rocking-horses, eyeless, maneless, and tailless, as they ripened hourly into a form more like that of the friend of youth. ❋ Stella Benson (1912)

It proved to be a male, maneless, two inches shorter than that killed by B., and three feet five and one half inches tall at the shoulder. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

The blind white head flung back and battered the wounds, and the body in its torment rose clear of the red and gray waves till we saw a pair of quivering shoulders streaked with weed and rough with shells, but as white in the clear spaces as the hairless, maneless, blind, toothless head. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

The tigers, or great, spotted panthers, as large sometimes as Bengal tigers, and the tawny, maneless lions, and many small varieties of the cat tribe abounded there. ❋ Unknown (1894)

It was a small maneless variety, called “the lion of Nyassi,” or long grass. ❋ Ed (1874)

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon his bear-skin, a maneless lion, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. ❋ Morrison Heady (1872)

There are three varieties found in Africa and India -- one, the maneless leopard, is confined to Africa, where also is found in the south a woolly variety with light brown spots. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)