Tsavo Lions #4

What started out as a simple engineering problem soon took on almost mythical proportions as Patterson and his mostly Indian workforce were systematically hunted for food (and for sport) by two maneless male lions. (For aesthetic reasons the lions that portrayed them in the movie were fully-maned.) “Hundreds of men fell victims to these savage creatures, whose very jaws were steeped in blood,” wrote a worker on the railway. “Bones, flesh, skin and blood, they devoured all, and left not a trace behind them.” [The lions might have been maneless due to environmental variables, although maneless male lions are not unique to Tsavo.]