Museum of Natural History Chicago
The Ghost and The Darkness, two Tsavo lions are known for eating at least 35 people.
WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.com - ambushes in the night by two man-eater lions have plagued the railway workers over a hundred years ago. The real story was later appointed to the big screen in a movie called "The Ghost and The Darkness" is a story of a horrible massacre in Africa. But according to recent research, the number of those who died for the lion's prey is not as much as originally expected.
For more than nine months, two fierce lions, known as The Ghost and The Darkness were the lives of workers pulling 35 - not a small amount, but far less than the original calculation of victims who called 135.
Event itself occurred in 1898 when the British government mobilize the workers from India and the local population to build the train line from Uganda through Kenya. We crossed the area named Tsavo, workers are haunted by the lions without a human hair hooked. Not like a male lion with long hair, male Tsavo lions are not so much like a lion-haired female. One by one worker was killed and used as food.
The number of dead is reported as 28 laborers plus many local people involved in the project, which totaled 135 people. But researchers who want to know how many victims Tsavo lion's body was later learned that the lions are now on display at the Museum of Natural History in Chicago. They examine the types of carbon and nitrogen in both teeth and hair.
Chemical ratios were then compared with the carbon and nitrogen in the modern lion in the same area, also the lion and the lion prey animals that devour humans.
Bones and teeth can store carbon and nitrogen isotopes in a long time while the ratio in the hair will change more quickly, allowing the researchers determine the types of food lion in a long time, and changes during the last months.
It turned out that one of the lions made of human flesh known as half of the food is during the last months he lived, and thought he had eaten at least 24 people. Whereas the other lions had eaten 11 people.
Researchers led by anthropologist Nathaniel J. Dominy and Justin D. Yeakel of the University of California, Santa Cruz noted that the number of deaths reported at that time ranged from 28 people like Uganda Railway Company reported, up to 135 people as expressed Lt. Col. John H Patterson, the British officer who killed both the lion in December 1898.
In a report published Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday (3 / 11) it is mentioned that the number 35 is mentioned is the number of people who eat, not including those just killed. Because according to the story, the lion also like to kill not to be eaten. When the murdered counted, the number could reach 75 people.
The two lions were killing people during the drought that causes their prey disappear. At the same time, railroad workers coming to their location, so as to replace their prey. It is a bit odd according to the researchers, is that the lion seemed to work together to kill the person they seek. This is a normal thing when they hunt large prey such as buffalo or zebra, but not necessary if they are human or animal hunted smaller.
Even so, one of the lions were known to have dental problems and pain in the jaw, thus reducing its ability to hunt. So that both can work together, in which a single feed more people, while others prefer other prey, but also human hooked.
For more than nine months, two fierce lions, known as The Ghost and The Darkness were the lives of workers pulling 35 - not a small amount, but far less than the original calculation of victims who called 135.
Event itself occurred in 1898 when the British government mobilize the workers from India and the local population to build the train line from Uganda through Kenya. We crossed the area named Tsavo, workers are haunted by the lions without a human hair hooked. Not like a male lion with long hair, male Tsavo lions are not so much like a lion-haired female. One by one worker was killed and used as food.
The number of dead is reported as 28 laborers plus many local people involved in the project, which totaled 135 people. But researchers who want to know how many victims Tsavo lion's body was later learned that the lions are now on display at the Museum of Natural History in Chicago. They examine the types of carbon and nitrogen in both teeth and hair.
Chemical ratios were then compared with the carbon and nitrogen in the modern lion in the same area, also the lion and the lion prey animals that devour humans.
Bones and teeth can store carbon and nitrogen isotopes in a long time while the ratio in the hair will change more quickly, allowing the researchers determine the types of food lion in a long time, and changes during the last months.
It turned out that one of the lions made of human flesh known as half of the food is during the last months he lived, and thought he had eaten at least 24 people. Whereas the other lions had eaten 11 people.
Researchers led by anthropologist Nathaniel J. Dominy and Justin D. Yeakel of the University of California, Santa Cruz noted that the number of deaths reported at that time ranged from 28 people like Uganda Railway Company reported, up to 135 people as expressed Lt. Col. John H Patterson, the British officer who killed both the lion in December 1898.
In a report published Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday (3 / 11) it is mentioned that the number 35 is mentioned is the number of people who eat, not including those just killed. Because according to the story, the lion also like to kill not to be eaten. When the murdered counted, the number could reach 75 people.
The two lions were killing people during the drought that causes their prey disappear. At the same time, railroad workers coming to their location, so as to replace their prey. It is a bit odd according to the researchers, is that the lion seemed to work together to kill the person they seek. This is a normal thing when they hunt large prey such as buffalo or zebra, but not necessary if they are human or animal hunted smaller.
Even so, one of the lions were known to have dental problems and pain in the jaw, thus reducing its ability to hunt. So that both can work together, in which a single feed more people, while others prefer other prey, but also human hooked.
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