The man-eater tiger of Kumaon| Champawat tiger| Jim Corbett| Save the Tiger
The most deadliest animal on the planet in the history of the number of
people killed by a single animal is the man-eater tiger of Kumaon- The Champawat tiger. This man-eating
tiger has been recorded in the Guinness book of world records for killing 436
number of people in a span of 4 years and is popularly known as the Champawat
tiger which was a Royal Bengal tigress who
left the conventional methods of hunting
a deer or other prey and turned into a man-eater.
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It is believed that Man-eater tiger only killed people and
used to eat them up to an extent that even the remains of their body and any of
the belongings were not even found. The total count of people killed by the
tiger was given as 436 by the authorities but it is believed that it was such a
silent killer and an efficient hunter
that the actual kill count was far more than this as many people got
missing and no remains were found of them, not even signs of a tiger attack.
This man-eater tiger or Champawat tiger actually started
with the killing of people and became a
man-eater in Nepal region where it used to hunt the people and later it was
discovered that it has started consuming them as well. Earlier it was believed in
the region that attacks on some people was result of a sudden encounter of the
tiger with the people, but when it was found that the tiger is hunting people
for food, it raised panic and fear in the entire region.
The authorities in Nepal took several measures such as
forest guards, elephant riders, shooters, hunters, and other means as well but
nothing helped and all efforts went in vain. It was such a clever animal that
it was very difficult to collect any tracts of this man-eater tiger from the attack site
and it was always able to escape from the shooters.
Seeing no other means left, the Nepalese army was asked for help which turned
out beneficial as the army somehow managed to evade the man-eater tiger from
the region and the Champawat tiger fled and moved in into the Kumaon region of
Uttarakhand, India.
After entering the Kumaon region, the man-eater tiger
created panic and fear in the region as it started killing people in the region.
Soon several methods were taken such as shooters, watchers, forest teams, etc but as the man-eater tiger was well versed in escaping, all this action was a fail.
The authorities and forest officials all were disappointed as
the killing of the number of people by the man-eater tiger was increasing with
every passing day. Soon to the rescue came the world-famous hunter of the time –
Jim Corbett.
He was such a brilliant hunter that in his entire hunting
life he shot 19 man-eater leopards and 14 man-eater tigers. He used to kill
only those animals which became a serious threat to the life of the people and believed
to hunt alone without any assistance from other hunters.
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After the killing of a local 16-year old village girl near
Champawat region, Jim Corbett followed the tracks of the killer which was
clearly a tiger, and he managed to locate the remains of the girl but soon the
tiger charged on him and he somehow managed to escape by firing shots into the air.
The following day taking
the help from a huge number of village people, he somehow managed the man-eater
tiger to come in his range of rifle after which the Champawat tiger was shot
dead and finally after a long period of panic and fear in people, the story of
man-eater tiger of Kumaon came to an
end.
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While there were many predictions and views which were given
as to why the tiger of Kumaon turned in into a man-eater tiger but the most practical and sensible was that after the autopsy report of the tiger, it was found that the upper and lower
canine of the jaw of the Champawat tiger was broken may be due to a bullet shot
from a hunter which made it incapable of hunting its natural prey
and went for the hunt of the easy prey which is human turning into a man-eater tiger.
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