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In 1898, two lions attacked dozens of people before Lt. Col. Patterson killed the cats. The Field Museum, #Z93658 They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions. Their ancestors were vilified ...

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For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway. A ...

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Man-eating animals are not mythical creatures or horror legends. They are real predators whose behavior, under rare but documented conditions, has led to human deaths. Scientists emphasize that these ...

Wildebeest, zebra and humans? That’s the diet scientists say filled the bellies of two infamously bloodthirsty lions who once terrorized railroad workers. The “Tsavo man-eaters,” as the male African ...