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One tiger, for example, was responsible for over 400 human deaths. Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Corbett's books, and contains 10 stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of the twentieth century. The text also contains incidental information on flora, fauna and village life.
The latter animal had killed over four hundred people. [48] Corbett tackled them both in 1910, tracking and killing the tiger in the spring; [49] he was forced to abort his initial attempt to kill the leopard in April because of his work at Mokameh Ghat, but returned in September and killed the animal in a nightime hunt. [50]
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.
A man was fatally mauled by a tiger at a Chinese zoo on Sunday after scaling a wall to avoid purchasing a zoo ticket and landing in the animal's den.
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+ India Beast of Gévaudan: 113 France [15] Leopard of Golis Range: 100 Somaliland [87] Leopard ...
A zoo janitor has reportedly been killed by a tiger at Pitești Zoo in Romania. The man, 52, entered the tiger’s enclosure to clean it on the morning of Monday, Dec. 9 and was tragically killed ...
Officials said the 52-year-old victim, who had worked at the zoo since 2015, entered the tiger's cage without complying with proper protocol. Tiger fatally attacks zoo employee while he was ...
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.