Africa Discovery, Understanding, and Conservation at The Field Museum

From a glass case in The Field Museum's Rice Wildlife Research Station, two maneless lions stare out at visitors. At the turn of the century, in what is now Tsavo National Park, Kenya, this duo—both males—killed and ate scores of workers who were building a railway bridge over the Tsavo River. Col. J. H. Patterson, having recently arrived to oversee the project, shot the lions after months of pursuit. Not long afterward, he found a cave littered with human bones and pronounced it the "Man-eaters' Den."

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