The Lions of Tsavo, Pt. 2

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Why did lions in the Tsavo region start to attack humans in the first place? Modern behavioral and scientific research has given us some surprising insights into the causes of the 1898 attacks as well as modern lion attacks in the same area.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseOfWorks.com.
0:42.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.
0:45.2	And I'm Tracy B. Wilson.
0:46.7	And so in our last episode, we discussed the incidents that happened in 1898 in
0:51.6	Savo, Africa during construction of the Uganda Railroad.
0:55.2	Two lions who came to be known as the Ghost in the Darkness,
0:58.2	because many of the men in camp believe them to be supernatural,
1:01.2	killed in eight dozens of workers,
1:03.2	eventually shutting down work on the bridge until the pair were killed
1:07.2	by Lieutenant Colonel John Patterson,
1:09.2	who was a civil engineer that was hired to work on the construction project.
1:12.2	So we need to have a note about names before we go on today.
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