Museum's lions didn't eat 135 men, scientists conclude
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- News Source: The Mercury News | 24 days agoThe mystery had all the makings of a Hollywood murder flick: an unsuspecting Kenyan village, two hungry lions and lots of blood and gore. The famed "man-eating lions of Tsavo" terrorized the railroad camp for nine months in 1898 and ate 135 people,...
- News Source: The Daily Telegraph | 24 days agoTWO man-eating lions terrorised Kenya during the building of a railroad bridge over the Tsavo River in the late 19th Century, but only one was making regular meals of human prey, researchers said. The lions attacked and devoured workers building the...
- News Source: Chicago-Sun Times | 24 days agoStaff Reporter/kspak@suntimes.com Maybe they should be called the man-snacking lions of Tsavo. The notorious pair of Kenyan lions, part of a popular Field Museum display, did not kill and feast on 135 people working on and near an African railroad in...
- News Source: Arizona Republic | 24 days agoThe 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 ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as...
- News Source: Honolulu Advertiser | 24 days agoThe Tsavo lions are both now stuffed and on display at the Field Museum in Chicago. Their killing spree inspired the 1996 movie "The Ghost and the Darkness." Scientists from the University of California at Santa Cruz have studied the lions' bones and...
- News Source: Chicago Tribune | 25 days agoFor more than 80 years, the man-eating Tsavo lions have been one of the Field Museum 's top tourist draws. Now a study released Monday suggests the Tsavo lions' taste for human flesh may have been exaggerated. According to the man who finally caught...
- Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.comThey may have been the world's most famous man-eating lions, but it turns out they made other dinner arrangements from time to time. ... Turns out famous man-eating Tsavo lions could push away from table from time to time ... Scientists from the
- Blog Source: robwire.comStudy: Man-eating lions consumed 35 people in 1898. 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 ago ...
- Blog Source: ksjtracker.mit.eduHe's reporting a study in PNAS in which Justin Yeakel of the University of California, Santa Cruz, used bone and hair samples from the man-eating lions of Tsavo to determine that they ate about 35 people. But one had more of a taste for humans than ..
- Blog Source: scienceblogs.comBy winter, a third of his food came from freshly killed humans. This was the animal that caused the lion's share of deaths among the railway workers, and Yeake estimates that he ate around 24, giving a total kill count of 35. ...
- Blog Source: weirdthings.comStrikingly, the other lion ate very few humans, subsisting instead on herbivores. That dietary disparity leads Dominy and Yeakel to infer that the Tsavo lions worked together to scatter everyone, both humans and wild game, ...
- Blog Source: www.metafilter.comLion taming, for instance, is a laborious task of directing the animal's natural behavior, and, even then, the animals are extremely limited in what they can be taught to do, which is why you will see them standing all balls, but never see .... The
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@RayLong Lions stopped Brits, but ate only 35 people? What a relief http://ping.fm/YXegN
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@lcuthbert RT @Discovery_News: Man-eating lions in 1898 Uganda ate fewer people than thought, but still... a lot. http://ow.ly/yJa7
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@JohnPaczkowski A little disappointed to hear that the Man-eaters of Tsavo ate 35 people, not 135 http://ping.fm/EVzZs
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