Posted on 05/21/2022 4:39:10 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Deforestation, Poaching, and White People Created the Man-Eater of Champawat
In the first decade of the 20th century, the most prolific serial killer of human life the world has ever seen stalked the foothills of the Himalayas. A serial killer that was not merely content to kidnap victims at night and dismember their bodies, but also insisted on eating their flesh. A serial killer that, for the better part of ten years, eluded police, bounty hunters, assassins, and even an entire regiment of Nepalese Gurkhas.
A serial killer that happened to be a Royal Bengal tiger.
Specifically, a tiger known as the Man-Eater of Champawat. Far more than an apex predator that occasionally included humans in its diet, it was an animal that—for reasons that wouldn’t become apparent until its killing spree was over—explicitly regarded our species as a primary source of food. And to that end, this brazen Panthera tigris tigris hunted Homo sapiens on a regular basis across the rugged borderlands of Nepal and India in the early 1900s with shocking impunity and an almost supernatural efficacy. In the end, its reported tally added up to 436 human souls—more, some believe, than any other individual killer, man or animal, before or since.
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My dog doesn’t eat squirrels but she sure loves killing them.
Thank for your post. I was about to post the same, but was going to add that wild animals are basically lazy, and that a human would be the easier prey.
Bag limit of 500?
“…with seemingly no effort at all.“
The lion that killed the railway workers wouldn’t trouble himself to kill them as he carried them away bodily because they, even in their terror and desperation, couldn’t struggle violently enough to necessitate it. Pretty scary really.
The article is pretty cheap, with easy white western oppressor cast.
Lots of people forget that humans aren’t really at the top of the food chain, and it’s always been that way - even for white people.
The Beast of Gévaudan in 1760’s France had a similar or potentially higher body count than this tiger. Another circumstance where the ‘food population’ wasn’t allowed to carry weapons for self-defense.
Makes you realize how soft and defenseless we can be. Without our guns, we are far less formidable as prey.
There is a lesson there, especially as there are elements including our own government which wish to prey on us.
The answer to the headline question is in the movie “The Ghost And The Darkness”.
https://iment.com/maida/family/father/jackbell/Jack-Bell-Prospector-and-Naturalist-38.htm#tiger
A Campfire Tiger Story How a Man-Eater Was Conquered by An Old Plainsman
What total BS, colonialism cause a tiger to eat humans. Big cats have eaten humans for years, the natives didn’t have it broadcast to the news media.
The author has the same mentality, blaming white people, as folks who blamed Jews for the Great Depression.
The writer really needs to exit journalism and become a WalMart greeter.
“Tyger tyger burning bright in the forests of the night, what immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry.”
I'll bet he was haunted by the dead.
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