Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty seemed to live fairly long lives, without being done in. Maybe because they carried whips and guns, and acted tough and intimidating towards the animals...?
They’d probably be deemed un-PC nowadays, and have protesters picket them, and CNN make propaganda films demonizing them. They’d be as culturally despised by our idiot populace as that dentist-hunter who went big-game hunting in Africa last year.
The most competent person I ever saw working with tigers was Gunther Gebell Williams with Ringling Bros. fantastic.
Frank and Clyde should have tried painting their faces to look like a tiger and perhaps added a tail. That would have attracted the attention of the tigers.