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The Field Museum, #Z93658 They are perhaps the world’s most notorious wild lions. Their ancestors were vilified more than 100 years ago as the man-eaters of Tsavo, a vast swath of Kenya savanna ...
A genomic study of the maneless Tsavo lions confirmed that they were likely siblings. Pictured: a pair of maneless lions living today in the Tsavo region.
In the late 19th century, two lions unleashed terror on the workers tasked with the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway Known as the "Man-eaters of Tsavo," this ...
A recent study has shed new light on the dietary habits of the infamous Tsavo "Man-Eaters" lions through DNA analysis of hairs found in their teeth. Researchers from the University of Illinois ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- When the Lions of Tsavo first arrived at the Field Museum of Natural History 100 years ago, they had been made into rugs. But taxidermists transformed them into the lifelike ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Passengers aboard the first Kampala-bound train as railway resumed services to Uganda ...
In the 1990s, a team from the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago found a cave that the “man-eater” lions had used in Tsavo, Kenya. The team included ...
Tsavo gained international acclaim as a result of two female lions, the world's most maligned and vilified felines that had a fetish for human flesh. The Indians who had become easy prey for the ...