Tsavo Lions

The Ghost and the Darkness, which came out in 1996, stars Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer. The Tsavo lions, a pair of man-eating lions who attacked and killed between 35 and 135 railroad workers in Kenya in the late 1800s, were the subject of a true story. Although the exact number is difficult to determine, it is safe to conclude that the two terrified thousands of workers and took more lives than they should have.

Lions rarely attack humans, so the fact that these two did it repeatedly was rather strange. They successfully blocked the railroad's expansion across Africa and served as a singular and puzzling impediment to British empire. There were numerous possible explanations for the enigma of why the lions attacked.

The superstitious believed that the lions represented nature's anger against either the railroad itself or the British attempts to conquer the area. The correct response is far less enigmatic. The lions' teeth were weak.

Researchers have been able to examine the lions' bodies since they preserved them after they were slain. The teeth were one of its distinctive qualities. These lions showed remarkably less tooth wear compared to a conventional lion. They appeared to have limited experience with brutal murders, according to one researcher, who compared them to the teeth you could expect to see in a confined lion.

In reality, it was believed that the dominant lion was unable to pursue typical prey due to a serious tooth infection. The stress of trying to kill a larger animal would have been crippling to the lion's jaw because larger creatures put up a fight. The lions had softer and easier prey in the form of people. Both lions were in a position to forgo their typical meal in favor of less aggressive humans because the second lion also suffered from dental issues.