The incongruity is kind of funny, a stark contrast to the deeds of the animals, memorialized in books and movies and in big letters on the front of their Field Museum display as “The Lions of Tsavo.” It is one of the few Field dioramas in which the animals are more than just examples of their species. In 1898, as the British guided construction of a railway in Kenya, near the Tsavo River, these two lions started killing the Indian workers, some 28 in all over a 10-month period, plus, some contend, many Africans that colonial history did not bother to count.