* An acacia tree in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya.

In the open savanna of Tsavo National Park, they kill most of their prey while hunting between sunset and sunrise.

The zebra can be found in numerous protected areas across its range, including the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, Tsavo and Masai Mara in Kenya, Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, Etosha National Park in Namibia, and Kruger National Park in South Africa.

* National Geographic Story on the Tsavo Lions by Phillip and Robert Caputo, with extra photos, maps, and information.

* Science Daily, 3 November, 2009: Notorious ' Man-Eating ' Lions Of Tsavo Likely Ate About 35 People — Not 135, Scientists Say abstract of National Academy of Sciences article )

* The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Tsavo East National Park, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa

Two national parks, Tsavo East National Park and Tsavo West National Park are nearby.

The Bachuma Gate entrance to Tsavo National Park

Tsavo East National Park is one of the oldest and largest parks in Kenya at 11, 747 square kilometres.

Named for the Tsavo River, which flows west to east through the national park, it borders the Chyulu Hills National Park, and the Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania.

Tsavo West National Park is more mountainous and wetter than its counterpart, with swamps, Lake Jipe and the Mzima Springs.

Tsavo East National Park is one of the world's largest game reserves, providing undeveloped wilderness homes to vast numbers of animals.

* Kenya Wildlife Service page for Tsavo East National Park

* World Database on Protected Areas: Tsavo East National Park

Category: Tsavo National Park

Elands can be found in many National Parks and reserves today, including Nairobi and Tsavo National Park, Masai Mara NR, Kenya ; Serengeti, Ruaha and Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania ; Kagera National Park, Rwanda ; Nyika National Park, Malawi ; Luangwa Valley and Kafue National Park, Zambia ; Hwange and Matobo National Park, Tuli Safari Area, Zimbabwe ; Kruger National Park, Giant's Castle and Suikerbosrand NR, South Africa.

A comprehensive list of the animal types found in Tsavo East Park includes the aardwolf, yellow baboon, bat, cape buffalo, bushbaby, bushbuck, caracal, African wildcat, cheetah, African Civet, dik-dik, African hunting dog, African dormouse, Blue Duiker, bush duiker, Red duiker, eland, African elephant, bat-eared fox, greater galago, gazelle, large-spotted genet, small-spotted genet, gerenuk, giraffe, African hare, springhare, Coke's hartebeest, hunter hartebeest, East African hedgehog, spotted hyena, striped hyena, rock hyrax, tree hyrax, impala, black-backed jackal, side-striped jackal, klipspringer, Lesser Kudu, leopard, lion, banded mongoose, dwarf mongoose, Egyptian Mongoose, marsh mongoose, slender mongoose, white-tailed mongoose, black faced vervet monkey, Sykes ' monkey, fringe-eared oryx, clawless otter, ground pangolin, crested porcupine, cane rat, giant rat, naked mole rat, ratel, bohor reedbuck, black rhinoceros, serval, spectacled elephant shrew, bush squirrel, East African red squirrel, striped ground squirrel, unstriped ground squirrel, suni, warthog, waterbuck, common zebra and Grevy's zebra.

pl: Park Narodowy Tsavo

Recently gem quality spinels were also found in the marbles of Luc Yen ( Vietnam ), Mahenge and Matombo ( Tanzania ), Tsavo ( Kenya ) and in the gravels of Tunduru ( Tanzania ) and Ilakaka ( Madagascar ).

Lions from Tsavo in eastern Kenya are much closer genetically to lions in Transvaal ( South Africa ), than to those in the Aberdare Range in western Kenya.

Tsavorite was first described in the 1960s in the Tsavo area of Kenya, from which the gem takes its name.

The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a railroad bridge in what would become Kenya.

The book describes attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo, Kenya in 1898 and how the lions were eventually killed by Patterson.

The film tells a fictionalised account about the two lions that attacked and killed workers at Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the African Uganda-Mombasa Railway in 1898.

In 1896, Sir Robert Beaumont ( Tom Wilkinson ), the primary financier of a railroad project in Tsavo, Kenya, is furious because the project is running behind schedule.

He was an Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, author and Zionist, best known for his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo ( 1907 ), which details his experiences while building a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya in 1898-99.

Tsavo is a region of Kenya located at the crossing of the Uganda Railway over the Tsavo River, close to where it meets the Athi River.

Beginning in the late 19th / early 20th century, the British began a concerted effort to colonise the interior of Kenya and built a railway through Tsavo in 1898.

Following Kenyan independence in 1963, hunting was banned in the park and management of Tsavo was turned over to the authority that eventually became the Kenya Wildlife Service.

The Kamba ( Akamba in the plural ) are a Bantu ethnic group who live in the semi-arid Eastern Province of Kenya stretching east from Nairobi to Tsavo and north up to Embu, Kenya.

The Kenya Wildlife Service has plans to relocate up to 400 elephants from Shimba to Tsavo East National Park in 2005.

In March 1898 the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya.

Until the British put an end to the slave trade in the 19th century, Tsavo was continually crossed by caravans of Arab slavers and their captives.

* December 9 – The first of the two Tsavo maneaters is shot by John Henry Patterson ; the second is killed 3 weeks later, after 135 workers had been killed.

The incident was also the basis for The Man-eaters of Tsavo, the true story of the events written and published in 1907 by Lt. Col. J. H.

Several publications about and studies of the man-eating lions of Tsavo have been inspired by Patterson ’ s account.

This lesser number was confirmed in Dr. Bruce Patterson's definitive book The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa ’ s Notorious Man-Eaters published by McGraw-Hill in 2004.

Several publications about and studies of the man-eating lions of Tsavo have been inspired by Patterson ’ s account.

# The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa's Notorious Man-Eaters by Bruce Patterson.

# Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa by Phillip Caputo

Patterson travels by train to Tsavo, where he meets supervisors Angus Starling ( Brian McCardie ) and Samuel ( John Kani ), a native African ( and the film's narrator ), and the doctor, David Hawthorne ( Bernard Hill ).

This might have contributed to the attacks by the two infamous Tsavo maneaters.

It was set up by Daphne Sheldrick after the death of her husband David Sheldrick, the anti-poaching warden of Tsavo National Park.

The plot of the Willard Price book Lion Adventure was inspired by the man-eaters of Tsavo, where Hal and Roger Hunt are hired to deal with a man eating lion that's preying on rail road workers.

Livestock predation by lions ( Panthera leo ) and other carnivores on ranches neighboring Tsavo National Parks, Kenya.

The name tsavorite was proposed by Tiffany and Co president Sir Henry Platt in honor of Tsavo National Park in Kenya.

This quality can be seen in the lions of Tsavo, which were reputed to be kings in lion shape, attempting to repel the invading Europeans by stopping their railroad due to attacks on humans.

In 1898, Patterson was commissioned by the British East Africa Company to oversee the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in present-day Kenya.

* The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, by J. H. Patterson.

It depicts their attempts to capture a lion for a zoo, which is hampered by a dangerous man-eating lion who parallels the well-known Tsavo maneaters.

* The Safari Team-The Hunt safari team, including Joro, Mali, Toto and Zulu the alsatian, plays only a minor role in this story, as their assistance is staunchly denied by King Ku, the Tsavo District Officer.