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The 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.
Articles relating to the Tsavo Man-Eaters and their depictions. They were a pair of 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 135 people.
The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a semi-autobiographical book written by Anglo-Irish military officer and hunter John Henry Patterson.Published in 1907, [1] it recounts his experiences in East Africa while supervising the construction of a railroad bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya, in 1898.
Hairs trapped in cavities of the infamous lions that hunted humans in Kenya’s Tsavo region in 1898 revealed the surprising prey of the massive cats, a study found. Individual hairs reveal prey ...
Estimated value of the fingerprint set: $8,000 to $12,000. The star of the auction is a typed letter to Earhart signed by Roosevelt congratulating her on her transpacific solo flight, an 18-hour ...
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson DSO (10 November 1867 – 18 June 1947) was a British Army officer, hunter, and author best known for his book The Man-eaters of Tsavo (1907), which details Patterson's experiences during the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in the East Africa Protectorate from 1898 to 1899.
The event catapulted Earhart onto the national stage. She was honored with medal ceremonies in Chicago, New York City, Boston, and Washington, D.C. ... In his 1966 book The Search for Amelia ...
Field Museum of Natural History – Tsavo Lion Exhibit; Guide to resources related to the Tsavo Lions at the Field Museum Library; Journal: man-eaters of Tsavo – Natural History, November 1998 (via FindArticles.com) Man-Eating Lions Not Aberrant, Experts Say – National Geographic News, 4 January 2004; Tsavo National Park