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He shot his first man-eater in 1907 and continued to hunt and kill such animals over the next four decades. 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.
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 man-eater of Segur, a young man-eating male Bengal tiger who killed 5 people in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state in South India.. Tigers are recorded to have killed more people than any other big cat, and have been responsible for more human deaths through direct attack than any other wild mammal. [1]
First edition (publ. Oxford University Press) 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]
The man's injury was so severe that he required a four-hour limb-salvage surgery to avoid amputation, according to state media People’s Daily. A Siberian tiger appears to ram a metal gate in ...
The Bachelor of Powalgarh (fl. 1920–1930) also known as the King of Powalgarh, was an unusually large male Bengal tiger, said to have been 10 feet 7 inches (3.23 meters) long. [1] From 1920 to 1930, the Bachelor was the most sought-after big-game trophy in the United Provinces .
Former Princeton football player Martin "Tiger" Bech was one of at least 15 people killed when an attacker drove a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans' French Quarters during the early hours ...
Wednesday's violent attack in New Orleans has claimed the lives of at least 10 people, and one of those victims is former Princeton football player Tiger Bech. Bech, a New Orleans native, played ...