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Bookmark or Share- Scientists found human hairs in teeth of 19th century lionsA team of scientists has now identified exactly what kinds of prey the so-called "Tsavo Man-Eaters" fed upon, based on DNA analysis of hairs collected from the lions' teeth, according to a recent ...
- Tsavo Man-Eaters - WikipediaThe Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths.
- The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange StoryThe Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo: A Dark & Strange Story. British railway workers in Kenya were terrorized by two lions: maneaters that defied the laws of nature and, by some estimates, killed over one hundred people.
- Two Lions Went on a Man-Eating Spree in 1898. Now, DNA ...The notorious predators, nicknamed the “Man-Eaters of Tsavo,” terrorized railway workers in Kenya for roughly nine months Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent The lions have been housed as taxidermy ...
- Individual hairs reveal prey of 19th-century Tsavo man-eating ...Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Now, an innovative genetic analysis of hairs ...
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