Tsavo Man-Eaters

"The whole of the works were put to a stop because a pair of man-eating lions appeared in the locality and conceived a most unfortunate taste for our workmen."

- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

The Tsavo man-eaters were a pair of man-eating lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya which were responsible for the number of the deaths of construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898.

After numerous failed attempts to deter the lions, many workers fled from Tsavo which halted construction on the railway. Forced to intervene, British colonial authorities send Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, who was leading the project, several armed sepoys to assist him in the hunt. Both lions would eventually be killed after a massive hunt and both their pelts were kept by Patterson who used them as a rug before selling the hides and their skulls to the Chicago Field Museum.

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