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Kenya’s Man-Eating Lions Not as Man-Hungry as Previously Thought | 80beats

posted to The Loom on 03 Nov 2009

According to legend, the infamous Tsavo man-eating lions dined on 135 people near a Kenyan labor camp prior to their capture in 1898. The two maneless lions have been a crowd favorite at Chicago’s Field Museum, where the stuffed beasts have been on display for over 80 years. But after analyzing f...
Kenya’s Man-Eating Lions Not as Man-Hungry as Previously Thought | 80beats

posted to Bad Astronomy on 03 Nov 2009

According to legend, the infamous Tsavo man-eating lions dined on 135 people near a Kenyan labor camp prior to their capture in 1898. The two maneless lions have been a crowd favorite at Chicago’s Field Museum, where the stuffed beasts have been on display for over 80 years. But after analyzing f...

Kenya’s Man-Eating Lions Not as Man-Hungry as Previously Thought | 80beats