Semi-unrelated, but have you ever heard of the Man-eating Lions of Tsavo? At Chicago's Field Museum they have the bodies of the lions preseverved; they're massive... there's a whole story behind them, and I bought a great souvenir, a small book written in 1925 or so by the guy who actually ended up killing both of them... terrific tale, could be made into a novel, but it remains an "account."