Four Field Museum staff members are conducting a variety of research in Tsavo, Kenya. Their individual research areas cover a broad spectrum, and projects include; an excavation of the Man-Eaters' den; ecological studies on the area where the Tsavo lions roam; genetic studies on the different species of lions roaming the Tsavo region; forensic evidence for man-eating by the Tsavo and Mfuwe man-eaters, by comparing dental trauma and associated pathologies in free-living lions and marauders; archaeological investigations of economy and trade in Tsavo.
Below are links to each staff member's research.
Thomas P. Gnoske, Chief Preparator and Assistant Collections Manager of the Bird Division, is currently conducting field research in Kenya. Gnoske is working with noted lion authority Dr. Craig Packer and his fellow researcher, Peyton West, of the Serengeti Lion Research Project.
Continue to Thomas Gnoske's research.
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Chapurukha "Chap" M. Kusimba is an Associate Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum. In 1998 Chap excavated the Man-Eaters' den. His current research is aimed at understanding the factors that contributed the extraordinarily rapid rise and collapse of precolonial urban societies in East Africa.
Continue to Chapurukha Kusimba's research.
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Bruce Patterson, MacArthur Curator of Mammals, began studying the Tsavo lions in 1997, with the goal of understanding their distinctive appearance, their evolution and ecology, and their associated behaviors. This broad range of interests led him to establish research collaborations with several different biologists, whose talents and activities greatly enhance and extend the overall research program.
Learn more about Bruce Patterson's new research on unique social systems found in Tsavo lions in our Field Museum press room.
Continue to Bruce Patterson’s research.
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Julian Kerbis Peterhans, Adjunct Curator of Mammals
Julian's research programs have been focused in two directions, one zoogeographic, the other taphonomic (taphonomy is the scientific study of bone accumulations). For the past six years, Julian has been conducting small mammal surveys in the mountains astride the Albertine Rift in Uganda. Taphonomic projects include wide-ranging inquiries into patterns of predation, specifically among felids (felines) and primates, carnivores and ungulates (hooved mammals), eagles and primates, and owls and rodents.
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