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Man eating tiger claims ninth victim: Six Hunters Hope To End Terror
Man eating tiger claims ninth victimThe tiger is called as “Baagh” in National Language “Hindi” and many others state languages. In Marathi, another prominent Indian language, its called as “Waagh”.
Despite intensive efforts to catch it, a man-eating tigress claimed her ninth victim in northern India and remains on the loose.
The tigress has been on the prowl since Dec. 29 when the first of its victims was found near Jim Corbett National Park. That’s a thickly vegetated forest region of Utar Pradesh in northern India.Wildlife officials and hunters are in a frantic search for the tigress. She claimed the life of a young farmer, who has yet to be identified.
The farmer’s partly eaten body was discovered of Friday, Feb. 7. He was reported missing on Thursday after he failed to return when checking the jungle for some wandering cattle, Salil Shukla, an official in the district of Bijnor, told AFP Friday.
“The victim was missing since Thursday and had gone into the jungle to locate his cattle,” he said. “This is the ninth victim of the man-eater.”
Jim Corbett, a colonial-era hunter-turned-conservationist after whom the Jim Corbett National Park is named, tells in his best-selling book the “Man-eaters of Kumaon” of tigers and leopards that killed hundreds.
“They do get a taste for humans,” Wright explained. “But I think (attacks happen) more because we’re very easy prey. As a tiger gets older, or is disabled in some way, we’re just very, very easy as we bumble around on our two legs.”
Rules prohibiting hunting tigers were suspended so a team of six hunters could go in and take the tigress dead or alive. Even animal advocates acknowledge that once a tiger has eaten human flesh more than once it’s practically impossible to return the animal to society. The tiger must be destroyed.
The rogue tigress is one of a population of 200 in the park. No nearby villagers could recall another instance of a man-eating tiger in the area. Authorities believe the tigress is hungry and may attack again.
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