May 2, 2025
Have been watching a lot about the Tsavo lions that attacked the Uganda Railway workers in 1898 and decided to do some art of them.
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Have been watching a lot about the Tsavo lions that attacked the Uganda Railway workers in 1898 and decided to do some art of them.
During a nine-month period in 1898, two maneless, man-eating lions hunted railway workers in the Tsavo region of Kenya. They were known as “The Ghost” and “The Darkness”.
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Tsavo Lions exhibit case with several children and their teacher or an adult male lecturer. Hall 22. For Raymond Foundation.
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3/1/1958
Tsavo Man-Eaters
The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of male lions that killed and ate laborers during the construction of the railroad across Kenya in 1898. In fact, these lions killed and ate so many people that work had to be halted for three weeks until the animals were shot by Colonel J.H. Patterson.
Usually man-eaters are disabled or old, with worn-down or broken canine teeth and blunted claws. Such a cat begins to opt for easy prey in the form of domestic livestock. Sooner or later it finds itself face to face with a herdsman - the rest of the story is easy to guess. However, the Tsavo Man-Eaters were lions in their prime.
There are many theories as to why the Tsavo lions became man-eaters. Some believe that an outbreak of rinderpest disease (cattle plague) in 1898 devastated the lions' usual prey, forcing them to find alternatives. Or perhaps the Tsavo lions were used to finding dead humans at the river crossing. Some guess that the abbreviated cremation of Hindu railroad workers invited scavenging by the lions. There is also indication of the first lion having a severely damaged tooth, which would have compromised its ability to kill natural prey, though the second lion had no such handicap.
It is interesting to note that although the Tsavo lions lacked manes, they were, in fact, fully grown adult males. This is actually quite common in Tsavo lions even today.
Ghost and the Darkness
A really good movie about the Tsavo man-eaters. I highly suggest giving it a watch while I look into getting the book written by Patterson himself.