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     The true story of two massive lions killing and eating as many as 135 railroad workers inKenya in 1898 has fascinated researchers and scientists for decades. __(36)__ railway engineerCol. John Henry Patterson who eventually killed the lions and wrote about his accounts in a book.Over the years, animal experts __(37)__ at the thirst the lions displayed for human flesh. It wassuggested initially that the lions’ desperate hunger made __(38)__ humans. __(39)__ , a recentanalysis of the remains of the two man-eaters, a part of the collection at The Field Museum inChicago, has indicated that that tooth and jaw damage might have been the __(40)__ . Accordingto the experts, since the jaw pain in the lions would have made it difficult for them to hunt largeanimals that eat only plants, they chose to go for the softer human flesh instead.
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