Look at those guys. Aren't they sweet? Well, actually, no. These lions, who were brothers, were known as The Ghost and The Darkness (which was which, I cannot tell you), and they killed something like 135 railroad workers in Tsavo, in what is now Kenya, in 1898. They are also known as the man-eaters of Tsavo. Apparently it's typical for male lions of the region not to have manes. The lions' pelts now reside in the Field Museum in Chicago.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
What I learned today
Look at those guys. Aren't they sweet? Well, actually, no. These lions, who were brothers, were known as The Ghost and The Darkness (which was which, I cannot tell you), and they killed something like 135 railroad workers in Tsavo, in what is now Kenya, in 1898. They are also known as the man-eaters of Tsavo. Apparently it's typical for male lions of the region not to have manes. The lions' pelts now reside in the Field Museum in Chicago.
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Maybe we should do this with violent criminals. Yeah, I like that idea.
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