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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]
Scared, Vikram fires shots everywhere in the den with the hope that the tiger will run away, but the tiger attacks him and Vikram falls in the ring of fire. The tiger does not attack Vikram again as tigers are afraid of fire and it disappears. The shots fired by Vikram are heard by Harry and Forest Officer Bhaskar Inamdar, who rush to the spot.
A man-eating animal or man-eater is an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has killed in self-defense.
The tigers killed a man in 2021. The remains of his body were found in the jungle the next day. Following the incident, the army stopped small vehicles passing through the forest. [2] The tigers killed a 34 year old elephant mahout who was taking part in rhino survey in 2021. [1] A ten-year-old boy was killed by the tiger. [3]
Forest officials have arrested two shepherds for allegedly setting fire to the forest. Fearing tiger attacks on their cattle in Bandipur, on 22 February 2019 they had sparked the fire to chase away a tiger which was spotted in the area for a month or so, leading to massive fire, which destroyed thousands of acres of Bandipur forest area.
Tiger attacks in the Sundarbans, in India and Bangladesh are estimated to kill from 0-50 (mean of 22.7 between 1947 and 1983) people per year. [1] The Sundarbans is home to over 100 [2] Bengal tigers, [3] one of the largest single populations of tigers in one area.
According to government sources, the forest fires combined have destroyed nearly 4,048 hectares of land, in 1,857 incidents. [1] Subsequently, the World Bank granted 500 crores rupees (US$75M) to the Uttarakhand forest department to research the cause of the forest fires, which was later increased [24] by ₹ 600 crores (US$90M). [25]
In one of the issues of the "Qafqaz" newspaper released in 1846 (No. 13), tiger hunts conducted in the Talish forests are mentioned. It is noted that the tigers in this region were in family units, consisting of females and pairs. The article also recounts a woman who killed a tiger with an axe to rescue her husband from the tiger's attack.