Kenya's Man-Eating Lions Not as Man-Hungry as Previously Thought

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By Brett Israel
Nov 3, 2009 8:57 PMNov 20, 2019 3:24 AM
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According to legend, the infamous Tsavo man-eating lions dined on 135 people near a Kenyan labor camp prior to their capture in 1898. The two maneless lions have been a crowd favorite at Chicago's Field Museum, where the stuffed beasts have been on display for over 80 years.

But after analyzing fragments of the lions' bones and fur, scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have determined that the true number of humans eaten by the lions was likely closer to 35.

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