Unlike many “maneaters” tigers don’t go just for the sick or the weak. I suggest reading “The Maneaters of Kumaon” be Jim Corbett. In northern India in the 20’s and 30’s he was called on to hunt down several tigers who had been snacking on any local they could find. One had a tally of over 400 victims, and that’s just the one’s they knew about.
Corbett was highly skilled, and nearly had his own hash settled on more than one occasion by these cats.
Yeah, I was responding to someone else who brought up the “weak and sick” scenario when it comes to big cats. The tiger is a lot more aggressive than other big cats though, and it will look for any opening of any other creature.
I think I read Corbett’s book several (ok, many... man I’m old) years ago in college. He had a good understanding of the cats before he went out there. Kipling’s version of nature, not Disney’s.