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Public Lecture Series with Nate Dominy

Nate Dominy will explore the geopolitical, social, and ecological conditions of East Africa during the 1890s, and how a combination of these factors led to the serial predation of humans by two male lions in 1898. The man-eaters of Tsavo have since attained a level of notoriety that is virtually unsurpassed in the annals of human-animal interactions. Their remains are displayed prominently in a popular diorama at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and they are the subjects of three Hollywood films as well as numerous books and articles. The fearful reality of cooperative, systematic man-eating has evidently left a lasting impression on our collective psyche. Yet many unanswered questions remain. Why did the two lions pursue human prey? And why did first-hand accounts describe differential prey selection? These idiosyncrasies of lion behavior invite study, and here Dominy will describe the results of collaborative research based on a stable isotope analysis of the Tsavo man-eaters and their prey.











When: Mon., Nov. 21, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: The Explorers Club
46 E. 70th St.
212-628-8383
Price: $25
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Nate Dominy will explore the geopolitical, social, and ecological conditions of East Africa during the 1890s, and how a combination of these factors led to the serial predation of humans by two male lions in 1898. The man-eaters of Tsavo have since attained a level of notoriety that is virtually unsurpassed in the annals of human-animal interactions. Their remains are displayed prominently in a popular diorama at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and they are the subjects of three Hollywood films as well as numerous books and articles. The fearful reality of cooperative, systematic man-eating has evidently left a lasting impression on our collective psyche. Yet many unanswered questions remain. Why did the two lions pursue human prey? And why did first-hand accounts describe differential prey selection? These idiosyncrasies of lion behavior invite study, and here Dominy will describe the results of collaborative research based on a stable isotope analysis of the Tsavo man-eaters and their prey.

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