It is found in the Tsavo region of southeastern Kenya and nearby northern Tanzania, but not on the coast.
Air Charter services throughout East Africa but mainly to Amboseli, Tsavo, Mara, Samburu, Lamu and Lake Nakuru in Kenya, and in Tanzania Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti plus Zanzibar.
The book has been adapted to film three times: a monochrome, British film of the 1950s, a 1952 3-D film titled Bwana Devil, and a 1996 color version called The Ghost and the Darkness, where Val Kilmer played the daring engineer who hunts down the lions of Tsavo.
Tsavo males have been known as man-eaters, particularly involving an incident during the building of the Uganda Railway in the late 19th century.
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Tsavo lions (Panthera leo nubica) are a distinct variety of lion living around the Tsavo River in the Tsavo National Park in Kenya.
The plot of the Willard Price book Lion Adventure (1967) was inspired by the man-eaters of Tsavo, wherein Hal and Roger Hunt are hired to deal with a man-eating lion that's preying on railroad workers.