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The Lions of Tsavo at the Field Museum in Chicago. These man-eating lions' story was told in the movie, "The Ghost and the Darkness", although the movie is highly fictionalized. For one thing, Patterson hunted alone, not with an American named Remington; for another, these two lions, though male, are maneless. In Tsavo, Kenya, these two lions were responsible for the deaths of about 130 people, and not all out in the bush either...several were actually dragged from inside huts and buildings and killed. After they were finally shot, the lions were made into a rug. Many years later, when the Field Museum purchased them from Patterson, they had been cut down to make the rugs and were badly moth-eaten. The taxidermist did a great job restoring them with what he had to work with, but they are substantially smaller than they were in life.
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