Scientists restate Tsavo lions' taste for human flesh

Nov 2nd, 2009 - ChicagoTribune

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For more than 80 years, the man-eating Tsavo lions have been one of the Field Museum's top tourist draws.

Now a study released Monday suggests the Tsavo lions' taste for human flesh may have been exaggerated.

According to the man who finally caught them in 1898, the two maneless Kenyan lions munched their way through as many as 135 people before they were shot, skinned, sold, stuffed and put on display in Chicago.

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