Stalking Tanzania's Man-Eating Lions Nature's most efficient predators are hunting down the people of southern Tanzania. These cats are cunning, hungry, and—some believe—not of this world. Photograph by Ami Vitale
Children play along the road at sunset near Mnolela. The vivid green, eight-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) grass and impenetrable scrub towers are right at the edges of the homes here. "How can you control lions in this stuff? Lions can hide anywhere in that," Ikanda the researcher says. —Contributing Photographer Ami Vitale