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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. She was finally tracked down and killed in 1907. [14]
The first designated man-eating tiger he killed, the Champawat Tiger, was responsible for an estimated 436 documented deaths. [28] Though most of his kills were tigers, Corbett successfully killed at least two man-eating leopards. The first was the Panar Leopard in 1910, which allegedly killed 400 people.
Unable to free it the tiger ate a meal from the hindquarters and left it. Corbett found the man-eater's paw prints in a nearby wallow and concluded that it was a big male tiger. He also got word from the villagers that the man-eater had a broken canine tooth. On all kills made by the man-eater one of the teeth had failed to penetrate the skin. [4]
Man-Eaters of Kumaon is a 1944 book written by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett. [1] It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating Bengal tigers [2] and Indian leopards. [3] One tiger, for example, was responsible for over 400 human deaths.
Authorities in Malaysia have captured two critically endangered Malayan tigers after they were blamed for an unprecedented spree of deaths among villagers.. Tiger traps have been set up in the ...
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.
They vary from 1907 to 1911 to 1926. I'm told that his memoir, 'Maneaters of Kumaon', only states that he killed the Champawat cat four years after a bounty was established. This site seems as good as any, stating that Corbett slew nearly a dozen maneaters between 1907 and 1938, the Champawat being the first.
Robert Kapas was sitting in a local mall in Atlanta wearing his homemade fish hat, when a man named Leo stopped to ask about it. After hearing the story behind the hat, Leo asked Kapas if he could ...