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 ...

As a result of the measures taken, the lions were returned to a special cage. No other people in the vicinity were harmed. There is currently no danger to the local population,' the Department of ...

In 1898, two lions that came to be known as the Tsavo man-eaters relentlessly hunted workers of the Kenya-Uganda railway in the dead of night before eventually being taken down.