In 1898, a pair of maneless male lions began terrorizing crews building the Kenya-Uganda Railway, killing and eating dozens of men over a span of about nine months. The lions became known as the ...

In 1898, a pair of male lions attacked, killed, and devoured dozens of workers constructing a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. At least 35 people were killed. After that, the large ...

WASHINGTON — The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ...

Three man eating lions have been caught by the forest authorities and sentenced to a life in cage. According to reports, a total of 6 people have been killed by lions, around the Gir forest in the ...

In Tsavo, male lions do not share power with other males. Tsavo males look different as well. ... Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo Did Indeed Eat People, Teeth Reveal. April 19, 2017.

Today, lions seldom hunt people, but as human populations continue to grow and the numbers of prey species decline, man eating may increasingly become a viable option for many lions." The results ...

Field Museum marks 100 years since acquiring man-eating Lions of Tsavo. ... The pair of maneless male lions suddenly acquired a taste for humans, and preyed upon the railroad workers.

A pair of lions in Kenya picked off and ate more than 100 people over half a year at the end of the 20th century. The 'man eaters of Tsavo', as they became known, were two male lions who hunted ...

The rather sedate display doesn't quite convey the history of these two animals. They are the infamous Tsavo man-eaters, two lions accused of killing and eating as many as 135 men in Kenya in 1898.

The “Tsavo man-eaters,” as the male African lions are known, have been mythologized in books and Hollywood movies. Historical accounts have described how they ate dozens of people who worked ...

The attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts in 1898. But the death toll, scientists now say, was not as high as previously thought.

The lions have been housed as taxidermy specimens at the Field Museum in Chicago since 1925. Superx308 Jeffrey Jung via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1898, a pair of maneless male lions ...