How scary are tigers that have eaten people? In 1903, a man-eating "addictive" man-eating tiger appeared in India, which ate 436 people in succession. Why don't tigers that have eaten people prey on other prey?
At the beginning of the 20th century, Nepal was still under British control. Due to population expansion, people began to live deep in the forest, mountainous areas, and inevitably encountered tigers, leopards and other fierce beasts in the jungle. At that time, near a small village called Lupal, a female Bengal tiger attacked humans one after another in just one year, killing nearly 200 people.
At the beginning, this man-eating tiger will enter the village at night, specifically looking for various vulnerable groups such as the elderly, women and children to attack. The villagers were worried for a while and couldn't sleep at night. So the village spontaneously formed patrols, which traveled together at night, carrying weapons with them, hoping to eradicate this harmful tiger.
However, just when it was thought that the tiger would only haunt at night, it appeared in the village during the day and dragged a peasant woman away by biting her throat. This went on for two years, and finally the news of the man-eating tiger reached the ears of the Nepalese king, who sent an army to carpet the tiger in all directions, but in the end it was nothing. The cunning man-eating tiger seemed to realize that it was being hunted and killed, dodged many traps, fled deep into the jungle, and did not appear again.
But the matter did not end there, and the man-eating tiger did not give up the idea of eating people, and it turned around and crossed the border to India. In the Champawaat region of India, the man-eating tiger is even more unscrupulous, roaming villages day and night to harm humans, killing as many as 236 people there.
Earlier, Nepal had relayed the message of the man-eating tiger to India, and the Indian authorities had set up many traps and traps against it. A bounty order was even issued, but none of the many experienced hunters could kill him. Until 1907, the Indian government had no choice but to invite a tiger fighting expert - Jim Corbett.
This expert was very famous in England at the time and later became a legendary hunter. He began hunting with hunters since he was a child, and he is very familiar with the cannibalistic habits of tigers, leopards and other beasts, and has unique tracking and reconnaissance skills. A few days after Jim's arrival, the man-eating tiger appears, dragging a young girl into the jungle.
With experience, Corbett followed the trails and blood trails all the way to the depths of the dense forest. At this time, the girl had died in the mouth of the man-eating tiger. But at this point, the pursuit of the man-eating tiger is even more urgent. Before setting off, Corbett arranged for more than 300 people to follow them through the traces of his judgment. As soon as these people arrived, they were responsible for yelling, beating drums and making noises to disturb the tiger's judgment.
Finally, the man-eating tiger lost its mind under the heavy encirclement and sound waves, jumped out of the hillside, and jumped towards the canyon. Corbett also seized the opportunity and fired several shots to kill such a ferocious beast. At this point, this man-eating tiger that traveled to Nepal and India to kill people everywhere was finally successfully hunted. Later, because of the location of the incident, this man-eating beast was eventually called Champawat.
Corbett observed the man-eating tiger afterwards and found that its teeth had been severely damaged, and its lower canine teeth and mandible had all been broken. Corbett guessed that the tiger must have damaged its teeth during a hunt, causing it to lose its ability to hunt. Instead, they chose to attack weaker, more prey-prone humans.
For beasts such as tigers, when they are no longer afraid of humans and have tasted the taste of human flesh, they will not be able to control their desire to eat people, which is the most terrifying. Some people think that humans are not in the tiger's diet, but after attacking humans and accidentally eating people, some tigers will gradually include humans in their own recipes, and when there is a lack of food, the desire to attack and eat people will be stronger.
At present, scientists are not sure whether man-eating tigers will write this trait into their genes and pass it on to their offspring. But humans seem to be aware of this danger, so there is an unwritten rule that tigers that have eaten people must be killed.
The contradiction between humans and tigers has a long history, and such contradictions seem to have not been reconciled since ancient times, perhaps humans and tigers are really natural enemies! #Tiger Cannibalism ##Headline Creation Challenge ##孟加拉虎 #
