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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.
Surviving the Indian Mutiny of 1857, he retired from military service and married Mary Jane Doyle née Prussia, a 22-year-old widow of Anglo-Irish descent, in 1859. She had had four children with Charles James Doyle of Agra , who had been killed in the rebellion.
In 2011, a drunk 18-year-old boy was attacked and killed in Rosario del Yata, Bolivia. [75] In 2012, a five-year-old Brazilian girl was attacked and killed by a shoal of P. nattereri . [ 76 ] Some Brazilian rivers have warning signs about lethal piranhas.
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 ...
The Champawat Tiger was found and killed by Jim Corbett after he followed the trail of blood the tigress left behind after killing her last victim, a 16-year-old girl. Later examination of the tigress showed the upper and lower canine teeth on the right side of her mouth were broken, the upper one in half, the lower one right down to the bone.
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.
The endangered tiger likely felt threatened by the man following its tracks, experts say. Man tracks Siberian tiger that killed his dog — then it kills him, Russian officials say Skip to main ...
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.