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Stereographic photograph (1903) of the Man-eater tiger, who had killed an estimated 200 people, in the Calcutta zoo. Tiger attacks are a form of human–wildlife conflict which have killed more humans than attacks by any of the other big cats, with the majority of these attacks occurring in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Southeast Asia. [1] [2]
The latest victim of a suspected tiger attack was a man who is believed to have been mauled in a rubber plantation in Gua Musang, Kelantan, on Saturday, just days after a Myanmar national was ...
50 Years of Project Tiger: For the traditional communities living in the world’s largest mangrove forest, hunting, fishing and gathering are essential sources of food and income. But they can ...
The Geylang Bahru family murders occurred in Singapore on 6 January 1979. [1] All four children in the Tan family were found dead in their flat, at Block 58 Geylang Bahru. They were hacked and slashed to death and their bodies were left piled on top of each other. The children ranged from 5 to 10 years of age at the time of death.
Two tiger attacks occurred at the San Francisco Zoo, in 2006 and 2007, both involving a female Siberian tiger named Tatiana (June 27, 2003 – December 25, 2007). In the first incident, a zookeeper was bitten on the arm during a public feeding. In the second incident, one person was killed and two others were injured before police shot and ...
Tiger attacks like Tharu’s were a rare occurrence in 2004. But as the tiger population increases, these attacks are becoming more frequent, and since 2019, there have been at least 34 fatal ...
Tiger attacks in the Sundarbans caused 1,396 human deaths in the period 1935–2006 according to official records of the Bangladesh Forest Department. [234] Victims of these attacks are local villagers who enter the tiger's domain to collect resources like wood and honey. Fishermen have been particularly common targets.
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 ...