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Animals such as the Champawat Tiger, the Leopard of Rudraprayag, and the Panar Leopard had taken hundreds of victims in the divisions of Kumaon and Garwhal, before their deaths at Corbett's hands. Man-Eaters of Kumaon , which detailed several such hunts, became an international bestseller; it was followed by several other books and was adapted ...
The Champawat Tiger was a man-eating tigress which purportedly killed some 200 men and women before being driven out of Nepal. She moved to Champawat district in the state of Uttarakhand in North India , and continued to kill, bringing her total human kills up to 436.
The movie bore no relation to the book and centred on an American played by Wendell Corey who wounds a tiger and is later killed by it. Corbett saw the movie and claimed that the best actor was the tiger. [7] In 1986, the BBC produced a docudrama titled Man-Eaters of India with Frederick Treves in the role of Jim Corbett.
The picture of the slain tiger used in this article is the same used in the article on Jim Corbett, where it is labeled as a picture of another tiger, the "bachelor of powalgarh". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.109.214.138 ( talk ) 01:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC) [ reply ]
The Champawat Tiger, a man-eating tigress who killed in excess of four hundred people, was named after this town, as she operated primarily in its surrounding area. She was shot in 1907 by the famed hunter Jim Corbett , the first designated man-eater he killed in a 30 year long career.
An estimated 100 POWs and other prisoners died during the brutal 100-mile march in the dead of winter.
A man who’s dog was stolen by a tiger went to find out what happened to his pet – only to meet the same fate
Alleged death toll Location Lions of Njombe: Up to 1500 (according to the main source) Tanzania Champawat tiger: 436 Nepal/India Leopard of Panar: 400 Northern India Gustave (crocodile) 300+ Burundi, rumored Talla Des Man Eater: 150 India Leopard of the Central Provinces: 150 India Tsavo's man-eating lions: 34 Kenya Leopard of Rudraprayag: 125 ...