Lions don’t usually eat people. But necessity or injury may have driven the Tsavo man-eaters to do so. A viral disease had wiped out many prey species, said Thomas Gnoske, a study co-author and ...

The results showed that the diet of Tsavo’s modern lions consists almost entirely of grazing animals such as zebra, waterbuck and buffalo. The man-eaters were different. Yeake calculated that one of ...

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 ...