The most famous case in Africa of Big Cats preying on men was described in the auto-biographical account of John Henry Patterson called The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed 135 people total, but modern estimates place it at 35 total. It was one of the most notorious instances of dangers posed to Indian and native African workers of the Uganda Railway where hostile wildlife and diseases both were frequent sources of deaths in the 1890s-1900s. The account was also given a film treatment, Spiriti nelle tenebre (1996), starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer.
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