@@rationalrama i know very well the difference between one of the best and the best. First read my comment properly and then speak otherwise don't speak.
Many people sympathize with the tigress which is not wrong but Jim also understood that one man's wrongdoing caused the suffering for many men and women. Which is also not fair. Tigers are incredible creatures. Terrifyingly powerful and cunningly intelligent. On top of that they hold grudges.
Tigers are majestic animals.However, In a fight of survival, humans can extinct any animal we wish to select. If humans act like animals aka the tigers, and give them taste of the same medicine, they will be wiped out of earth in 1 month. So the man-eater had to taught the lesson, of who is true Apex predictor. Humans are true Devils. And tigers should now inculcate fear in their DNA, as natural instincts to fear humans.
@Dhhajhfhfjdjsjjssk And how is what i said nonsense. Deers fear tigers, snakes fear bird. Thousands of year of evolution, instilled fear in them. Now it's time, Tigers fear humans in the natural process. Fear your predator.
@Dhhajhfhfjdjsjjssk Since we have intellect, use it to understand. Several animals throughout human history has gone extinct as well. Did it completely destroy the ecosystem.? No. If tigers get extinct we will use our ingenuity to fix the problem, if it arises. And tigers are not, Humans are the apex predators. Don't forget Humans came from caves, and were hunters only. Just by inventing modern ways of living, humans doesn't become anything else.
Yes they do that's a fact, people hurt her badly & didn't track her to finish what he started. Human was to blame of course, stupid man, can't stop crying
Im glad to hear that Tigers in India have recovered more or less by now. Its a shame that the same can’t be said about China. Northwestern China was the birth place of Tigers but now all of our indigenous population of tigers have gone extinct. There is a incredibly small population of Siberian tigers still in our Northeastern regions that emigrated from Russia. Hopefully we will have more tigers too in the future.
@@deadinthebed963dude get some brain ! Why do You people justify the death of innocent victims ? It's the British who killed 100,000 tigers in 170 years and other millions of animals
3:16 I have read the books by Jim Corbett. He specifically states that the reason he asked the bounty to be removed was because he had heard of very bad experiences when many amateur hunters are all hunting in the same area for the same animal, where stealth is required. He was worried about getting shot by mistake while he was stalking the tigress. It is not because he sympathized with the animal and thought it would be honorable to decline the bounty.
@@JayakrishnanNairOmana thank you for the info and the response. I hope you all can find away to stop it. Human life is more important than any animal.
@@andrewhatton1606 not when you have 1.4 billion humans lives to spare compared to a few thousand tigers. The sundarban residents have been officially declared as tiger kill -i.e., if you live there, you have declared yourself as meat for tigers and the government accepts your decision.
@@andrewhatton1606 there needs to be some ways to keep the tigers from going extinct, and poor indians who are as well dead than living in extreme poverty is the answer. The government allows them to stay in this area where they have over 30% risk of getting mauled or killed by tigers as sacrifice and a way to control human population and prop up the tiger population. In other words, government is feeding poor humans to tigers so they can (a) get tourist revenue from keeping tigers from going extinct, and (b) control human population explosion as experienced by rest of India. If you ever visit the shithole called as India, know that the cheapest commodity here is the lives of poor children.
The most intriguing thing is that Corbet displayed some element of being a "naturalist" even before he began the hunt for the Champawat Tigress in hypothesizing that the tigress' attacks were likely caused by age or injury even before starting the hunt. He simply couldn't confirm it until after he'd killed the tigress to find the years old injury to the jaw and teeth.
@Ree Tard - For tigers... injury is going to be the thing that drives most tigers to become man-eaters. In fact, in the early 1900s, most of the tigers that men like Jim Corbett hunted throughout India were found to have had some crippling injury that had likely occurred before they turned to hunting man. And when we look at things that tigers typically hunt... that may make sense. For normally, tigers prefer to hunt medium to large ungulate mammals. Some have the potential for very swift movement and thus could potentially escape a healthy tiger. Some are very strong and could be difficult to kill if the tigers don't have all their natural weapons. Thus, wanting to live, they will turn to what is easier to hunt and kill. Though injury wouldn't be the only reason for tigers to turn to man-eating. In some cases, there could be situations where something else has killed off large numbers of people and the tiger has just scavenged the corpses. Things like wars, floods, or diseases could provide them with very easy food if they find it. They thus get a taste for human flesh, and because many of the Indian parks allow people from nearby villages to gather thatch or wood or honey FROM the park, there is the potential for there to be conflict and a tiger that already has a taste may well decide to take a human that probably won't know the tiger is there. There could also be a case for a lack of food. Some of the animals that tigers normally hunt, like guar, are ALSO endangered due to habitat destruction and thus may not be available. And a tiger that is hungry... may simply take what is available. Man may not be their first choice, but if it's the only animal available... they'll eat what they can. As for "the loss of cubs..." that would depend on the situation and the circumstances under which a tigress has lost her cubs. For tigers, like all wild cats, practice infanticide in which males will KILL and eat the cubs that aren't related to them, which serves to bring the tigress back into heat to then carry that male's offspring. And while tigers have been reported to carry grudges, that doesn't appear to relate to issues within the species. If a tigress knows humans have killed her cubs, it's possible. There is a report that a poacher in Siberia killed a deer that a Siberian Tiger was hunting or drove it off of a kill... the tiger then tracked down where the poacher's cabin was, wrecked it and then killed the poacher when he returned to it. But in a hypothetical case where a tigress has killed a human out of vengeance, there could be the case in which it makes the kill and then just leaves the body without eating it.
@@JUICE16111 - Human rage really wasn't a condition that played into what happened with the Champawat Tigress turning "man-eater." Yes, she was shot by a low powered rifle that did damage to her teeth, but that is more the result of British colonial policy following the rebellions in India in the mid 1800s. Thus, Nepal likely didn't have access to more powerful weaponry resulting from earlier human/human conflict. And at the same time, given the cultural reverence for the tiger that his held among Hindus, as a result of its connections to the god Shiva, the goddess Durga, and in some ways a forest/jungle deity in its own right, I doubt that the tiger as a species has really endured the sort of hatred that the wolf has endured in Europe in contrast. However, that doesn't change that the Bengal Tiger is an apex predator that could easily pose a threat to people or herders for any reason. In this, my best guess is that the man who first shot the Champawat Tigress was a herder who had discovered the tigress after she had killed one of his cattle or was stalking his cattle. He fired a hasty shot in fear and when that was enough to get the tigress to flee, he didn't go chasing after a now wounded animal to put it down. And from there, the attacks on humans by the Champawat Tigress began, which stemmed from that wound having broken two canine teeth, and with one providing constant pain going down to the root of the tooth. Now, in theory, it is possible that veterinary medicine could have been used... but we must remember that the Champawat Tigress was NOT an escaped zoo animal. This was a wild tigress, and in 1903, issues with wild animals were not likely to be taken to the lengths to provide medical care... particularly in a region as remote as western Nepal and northern India. Thus, even in more developed countries, wild animals that caused such problems, it was likely that the problem animal would be killed to spare the aggravation and required work... Because we're still talking about an animal that is by nature predatory and weighs over 300 pounds. And given that this was in 1903 when the attacks on humans began, it should also be noted that the nature of the medicine of the time may not have been able to fix the problem. In this, even if Nepal or India were to pay to have veterinary care provided for a wild tigress... about all they'd likely do is remove the damaged teeth and thus alleviate the pain that she was in as a result of the injury. Thus, while she wouldn't be in pain, she'd still be missing two crucial weapons... which is something that various rescue shelters in the modern day have noted with tigers confiscated from domestic owners. In that the owner recognizes those canines or claws as a weapon and then decides to remove them with the theory that removing the canine teeth will make it more docile. However, what's often happened with these privately owned tigers is that they've become MORE aggressive because without their weapons they feel more insecure and unsafe. They can't intimidate someone by baring their teeth and thus become more aggressive.
@@lilrara1291 - That really isn't the case for tigers. Yes, they are more powerful than humans, but if they actively saw man as food there would be a greater number of attacks, regardless of injury or other circumstances. You'd thus see large numbers of humans being killed and eaten by young and healthy tigers. And this doesn't really happen. Fatal attacks have occurred, and this has included peopled people being eaten, but there has been a of other circumstances around the incidents in question. This has largely related to things like the age and health of the tiger in question with the elderly and injured the most likely to turn man-eater, because they cannot catch or kill their preferred prey anymore. The story of Broken Tail, the son of Machli is a good example of this. It was expected that this young male tiger would take over Ranthambore National Park in India from his mother. For aside from a broken tail, he was healthy and had displayed many of the traits that made his mother famous. Yet, shortly after reaching maturity, he vanished from Ranthambore. There were no signs of a fight or injury that would explain the disappearance... Then sometime later came a report of a tiger being struck by a train. When rangers could identify the animal... they found that the tiger in question was Broken Tail. He had journeyed hundreds of miles from where he was born, went through areas that were heavily populated by people and herders... and as some researchers found out, it's likely that Broken Tail had run ins with people along the way... but NO attacks. One man interviewed for a PBS Nature documentary said he'd been on a motor bike, came across a tiger by surprise and he fled in one direction and the tiger fled in the other direction. There was no attack. Which only further makes Broken Tail's story tragic in that he wasn't some vicious man-eater, could have taken over the park he was born in, and died in an accident. And while, yes, Broken Tail does represent an individual tiger and thus not completely representative of the entire species... that doesn't mean that the Bengal Tiger sees man as food. And in fact, researchers have looked into what Bengal Tigers hunt and have found that their preference is for ungulates, which humans are not. And in one park in the Bengal Tiger's range, analysis found that over 70% of the tiger's diet in that park came from the Sambar Deer alone. Do, fatal attacks on humans occur? Yes, but they are the result of rather specific circumstances. In the case of the Champawat Tigress it was injury from a gunshot. In some cases, regarding attacks on man in Nepal in more recent years it's been the result of tiger-on-tiger fights in which the defeated one has suffered injuries and that it couldn't overcome otherwise. And in places like the Sundarbans, where the tigers have seemed abnormally aggressive, the high salinity of the water in the region has been attributed to the attacks, as once the rangers began constructing more freshwater ponds, the number of fatal human attacks went down. In this, while the Bengal Tiger is more than capable of killing man, outside of some very specific circumstances, it doesn't see us as food. For if they did see us as food... they'd be brazen enough to walk into villages, grab someone out of their home and wouldn't go too far away. And this has not been observed with any known man-eating tiger. Not even the Champawat Tigress went into the villages to kill people. They were always attacked OUTSIDE the villages.
@@SamuelJamesNary what I’m saying is not every man eater is injured to the point the prey on humans.Some are just time and place.And in some places where tigers inhabit,they do see humans as apart of their prey selection
Jim Corbett had an intimate knowledge of India, it’s people and wildlife and his books are well worth reading for his descriptions of the jungle and its human and animal inhabitants.
@@animal-rights : Lots of people were born in India but very few had his depth of knowledge of its wildlife, so what is your point? Have you read any of his books?
Watching this video was as if I was living through Apartheid all over again. Glorifying oppressors and the local population is demonized. How many Britishers shot, maimed and killed hundreds of tigers... Leave alone the atrocities they committed to several locals in their own lands... A terrible perspective of a horrible situation.
Bro it was renamed from hailey national park to corbett national park.. Our beloved pt Nehru was prime minister then... Please dont blame british 9 yrs after independence... And any guy who have read corbett literature know who hailey was and how corbett viewed him....
@@KushalG08 beloved, hahaha you must be in school. Nehru, Gandhi were all British Stooges. Nehru was a top class bootlicker and a womanizer. Many of his action has resulted in deaths of thousands and loss of land.
I read Corbett’s Man Eaters of Kumaon when I was 12, a very long time ago. His exciting true takes were mesmerising. What comes across so strongly was his skill and bravery, and especially his ethical responsibility for the animals. This is a well-made documentary that well captures Corbett’s style.
I also read his book. Corbett made no grand moral issue out of killing man eaters. On the other hand he was aware that tigers are not "evil" and briefly explains that in his book. The narration of this video is heavily anthropomorphic. Tiger the cruel devil vs. Tiger the noble victim. Irritating.
there is nothing brave in shooting animals with a gun. if he fistfight the tiger it would be fair, and yes, brave. you need to get eaten by a tiger to see that you are NOTHING. weak.
Speaking of ethical responsibility, Corbett kept the coat of the tigress as a trophy. The tigress would have the decency to eat his skin for a full belly
MIght be. Might also be an accident by an unlucky wonderful person. Either way not intentional, nor known whether a local native hunter of a sporting hunter. Both who could be careless and callous.
I like Corbett, for he was a man of honour. Unlike most English people he worked for the village people and not for money and most importantly despite hunting man eaters he respected tigers as a species and showed them great respect and reverence as worthy animals (once again unusual a bit rare for an Englishman those days) and always treated his man eater victims with sympathy reminding us of the suffering they had to endure. Humans are responsible for mass genocide of big cats. British officers and the Maharajahs hunted without sense, sometimes one single person would claim 400 tigers. They got away with such acts: common villagers paid the price, as did the villainized tigers!
@Pavan Kumar Abe aankh ke andhe, where TF did he say that "Indians" had a "tradition" of downing tigers??? If anything he says the common folk suffered due to the elites' carelessness. Learn to drive before getting on the nationalist bandwagon.
British did have a bounty on them for some time, that changed to managed licensed hunting that seemed sustainable. That is open to interpretation if statistics contradict it. But the main cause of tigers (and much other faunas) demise was Indians overpopulation destroying the habitat (and shooting reserves preserved this). They overgrazed it with their skinny cattle, tigers substituted cattle for the wild game the Indians killed off immediately after independence, and the Indians poisoned the tigers. A few Maharajahs maintained shooting preserves that ironically probably contributed to saving the species. And some Indians remained professional poachers. India has now made marvellous progress to adapt to the current situation and deserves credit for protecting it's wonderful remnant wildlife as best it can with the pressure of its overpopulation. Blame the British might be fashionable, but doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
@@johnmead8437 There is no such thing as sustainable managed licensed hunting. Animal populations of all types skyrocketed in India since the british left, and this is along with a skyrocketing Indian population. The smallest bit of scrutiny would overturn everything you said. It’s the same story everywhere the british go - hunt everything to extinction or near extinction, and then blame those countries for making those animals endangered. And the brits have the audacity to say this despite the british isles being an ecologicial disaster.
@@adurpandya2742 The smallest bit of scrutiny is obviously insufficient More comprehensive examination of the issue will show wildlife populations plunged from independence to after Project Tiger became fashionable, when some relevant protection was applied to the remnant. There are many examples worldwide where this protects wildlife with hunting value better than reserves do. Although having scant respect for managed hunting it serves a purpose, and is superior in many (not all) circumstances to protect the populations so surplus can be hunted. The idealists meantime selectively watch the human greed and breed effect on creatures like the White Rhino etc.
Holy shit. When you said it had the most human kills by a single animal, I was expecting maybe something in the 15-20 range... and was still ready to be surprised by that. When you alluded to it being well over 400, my brain almost exploded. 🤯 That's just as incredible as it is tragic. Wow.
not a surprise if it was active for 4 years or more, it means it ate nothing else over that time because it was too injured to really hunt what it would normally.
@@MusMasi Well, yeah. It makes perfect sense from the standpoint of having a serious injury and eating whatever it found to be sustainable. The surprising part is the fact that it managed to tally up over 400 human kills without being killed itself.
@@Strype13 It's home is still largely unexplored even today. On the foot hills of the Himalayas are dense jungles that haven't seen the light of modernization to this day. It's impossible to build proper roads because of land slides and what not. Imagine what it was like a 100 years ago. The only way for a person to travel from one village to the other is by foot and a tiger is at it's deadliest in dense jungles like those. No wonder it claimed 436 victims before being killed by Corbett.
@@sethmutenda6351 Yeah, I'm aware of how effective they are at predation -- I just wouldn't really expect one to be able to achieve that many human kills without being taken out by humans who got sick & tired of losing community members to such a ferocious beast. I suppose the area it occurred is what allowed the numbers to get so high -- because I feel like any community that had access to firearms, or at least had a way to communicate with someone who did (and would be willing to provide some help) would have found a way to put an end to that reign of terror long before the number of victims got that high.
GB Shaw sarcastically observed: " When a man hunts a tiger, he calls it sport but when a tiger hunts a man he calls it a man-eater! " Comments of some show how right GB Shaw was!
These attacks seem to stem from human population growing into animal habitats. Imagine the number of tiger related deaths if their numbers were not brought down. Not only close quarter living between man and beast, but also a large population of tigers would inevitably resort to humans as food when it’s natural prey thins out.
@@joshrichards9121 agree on that, the majority is oír fault. And this animal are predator and if they saw us as easy prey and they are hungry, don't doubt it,
What a sadly tragic tale, the Champawat maneater wasn't so much a Devil as a victim of man's cruelty. Not saying those people deserved to die either, but to point her out as a mindless killer is to blatantly disregard the reality of the situation
Exactly! Which is why I love Jim Corbett so much. He was a hunter, but he was an animal activist who helped established one of the first National Parks of India, today it's used as a type of tiger sanctuary. He really loved animals, and made sure to emphasis the rarity of large carnivores turning on humans purely out of malicious intent. If you ever get a chance, you should read some of his books! There are some hair-raising stories in there!
@ Infinite Sky There's an African proverb " Until the Lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter " Corbet had a passion for hunting wild animals and named them man eaters.
@@AbsurdandFantastical He was also one who didn't embellish his accounts and add imagined emotive anthropomorphic exaggerated interpretations, unless of course the source of the information for the detail about the tigers injury can be provided. Corbett interpreted its' injury as caused by a bullet, depriving it of canines on one side. If any record exists (other that this channel) of that being a cause for it suffering ongoing pain and malice, or damaged jaw etc, this source would be of interest. The lack of canines made it difficult to catch its' normal prey so it supplemented it with humans, something that causes most man-eating cats (not all, some apparently are lazy or like the taste, particularly leopards). Put simply, hunger. Corbett took notice of such detail, e.g. he described ongoing suffering in detail when describing the Mohan tiger episode.
That brought me to tears . Tears for all those who died such a terrifying and horrible death. Tears for those who lost a wife, a husband , a daughter , a son . And Tears for the tiger. A tiger that were it not for some man's indifference, laziness , stupidity would probably have lived a normal tiger life . Thank you for sharing this.
Tiger protected it's jungle ,it's humans who encroached jungles. Why are human population ever increasing and where is space for there resources and why should animals and other species pay the price by going to extinction?
@@vikasshelke5544 Tigers were hunting people for few hundreds thousands of years, why are you crying that humans are hunting tigers for a few hundreds of years? Just because we are finally more successful?
Jim Corbett's writings are wonderful. I first read "The Man-Eaters of Kumaon" (in which he tells the story of the Champawat Tigress) as an adolescent. Then I read it again a few years ago and found it had lost none of its appeal. Corbett had a realistic, but very humane attitude towards the man-eaters he tracked; one senses that he loved and admired big cats. But he also cared about people. His simple telling of the story of the woman begging the tigress to let her sister go and take her instead is heartbreaking.
I remember reading about Corbett when I was a child. "Maneaters of Kumaon" I think it was, and I was struck by how humane he was when dispatching these killers. In almost every case the tiger had been injured and was no longer able to hunt in a normal fashion.
I have heard this story before, being familiar with the life story of Jim Corbett. However, I would just like to praise the work of the narrator of this episode. She has a beautiful voice.
As a person whose favorite big cat is the tiger along with the jaguar, this video really made me sympathize with the animal. A victim of humanity’s cruelty.
@ Zoo Emperor You are absolutely right about what you commented. Never believe a British man. There's an African proverb " Until the Lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter."
Corbett (& many of the "old" tiger hunters) records the same, except in exceptional circumstances. That seems consistent, particularly when the locals accept tigers eat animals because they have to, and less livestock are killed where wild game is available for tigers..
I lived near GoKarna, Karnataka for several months, living on Half Moon Beach but visiting internet cafés and teaching yoga to travellers on Om Beach. The foot path between them went up and overland through forest then down to the other beach. The local villagers were terrified to walk this path at night. I was always the only human I would see on the path after dark. While it was true that many times I encountered a large mammal (from the soft heavy footfalls and snorting I think some sort of bear), he or she always remained just out of sight of me and mainly sounded annoyed and also almost as fearful of me as I was of him/her. And so we maintained an uneasy truce all those months, both of us clearly not wanting any trouble to come of my brief intrusions into their territory. I always made sure that I had a good flashlight with me and walked with alertness but also swiftness on the well-worn path, to make it clear that I had no interest in lingering and in disturbing this creature any more than necessary. I also made sure to walk loudly, or sing, so that the creature would not be startled by me and would know I was coming. I could tell that this creature did NOT like to be surprised, and that it made them feel unsafe. The creature seemed to understand my intentions and there was never an incident. For me, watching this video informs me as to why perhaps the locals are so terrified of the forest at night; because they have a genetic memory of such times in the past in India when such incidents were much more common to occur.
I am currently reading one of the very famous book written by Jim Corbett. Man eaters of Kumaon. I must say i am in love with sir Jim corbette's work.. for his experiences tells a lot about those man eaters and their behaviours...
nice vid. jim corbett was born in india . he was an exceptional man. he was a pioneer of conservation of the jungle and the animals that dwell in them .as one who has spent time in the area where he lived and hunted maneater i recommend his books highly.
Jim Corbett was not as the narrator said 'a young inexperienced man'. He was a very experienced hunter who had hunted all his life. This hunt took quite some time to finish. He was a naturalist and later in life became a serious photographer both still and movie.
The Man Eaters of Kumaon - the book by JC was an excellent book and a favorite read for me in my youth! An amazing book about Man Eating Tigers. This man’s descriptions were incredible! So easy to read. So easy to believe in the malevolent behavior of these tigers was most always do hunger and unable to catch its normal prey.
To understand the real gravity at the time , one must read Jim Corbett’s “Man eaters or Kumaon” & “More man eaters of Kumoan” , those are fantastic books and will give goosebumps far greater that what one feels listening to this video… of course this clip ain’t bad but the book is at least 10 times better.
I agree 100% The books are amazing, and Jim Corbett is a great story-teller! For the sake of pacing, I had to leave out one or two events, so if you can find the books, read them - they're damned amazing! (Thanks for checking out the vid :D)
I sympathize with the tiger, but with a man eater with the body count of 436, MOST OF THEM CHILDREN, cannot be allowed live. Not to mention reason she's hunting humans was because she was in too much pain to hunt her usual prey. A full meal would never fix that pain. It was best for everyone, including her, that she was put down
Yep without its 2 canines it won’t be able to kill the big usually prey, so it adapted an unfortunately killed 436 ppl, just shows how useless humans are against top predators without our weapons.
@sahil shrestha that’s why we have brain. Yes we may be physically weak compared to them but the shit we can build can whipped out all animals on the planet. That’s not even something to be proud of.
A really common pattern, not exclusive though. Old age, fights etc also cause it, and some cats simply take what is easy, often starting on cattle and progressing to humans. Most of that nonsense was cured by Indian Independence when licensed hunting lost its' administrators, about the same time cattle herders discovered agricultural insecticides worked to prevent further cattle losses when applied to kills. So hunters get the blame for overgrazing and poisoning by the natives. The belated efforts at protection probably stool face the same issues, and deserve credit for preventing extinction of tigers, particularly with the oriental medicine trade rife
Wow I’m in awe and sad for the Tiger. It was traumatized and hurt. I never heard about Corbett but I’ll research. This narrator did a beautiful job too with her wonderful voice❤
I read about this story while in school which was a bit different. When the tiger pounced on him Corbett lost his rifle and he had to snatch the rifle from another person and shoot the tiger. Corbett was not just a hunter, he loved and respected animals. He respected the tiger for all its majesty.
The human is the monster leaving her to such pain, despicable & I've been shot with a small boar shotgun, shattered 2 & half inches in my leg they wanted to cut it off at the knee, parents wouldn't let them so I know how it feels, poor tiger & she didn't have a hospital to help her
@@deborrahshiffer9582 are u high or something. You realise this tiger was aggressively attacking humans who were innocent the heck u want? To not hunt the tiger And tiger just go and attack humans. What about u go live with tigers instead of with us humans. Since u empathy more with tigers then with humans.
Animals are Animals don't know cruelty they need survive and she probably did it for a reason like it's animal thing they don't know cruelty leave Animals alone
Jim corbett's book features in my top 10 books. Had read this story in 2005 n then earlier this year during my corona days. V well narrated. What a beautiful voice
As a native of champawat district,i want to take one other important thing to consider that along with this tigress which operated in centre of the district and killed 436 human beings in both Nepal and Champawat,there was a man eating leopard which operated at the same time in Panar Valley which borders between current champawat and almora district,,this leopard also killed more than 400 people alone in that time almora district(in that time champawat Used to come under almora district)was killed after Jim Corbett killed this champawat man eating tigress.
Have read Corbett's account of Panar leopard. The fact it was active in a more remote place compared to the Rudraprayag leopard made it less known . It was also one of his earlier hunts when weapons at his disposal
I don't understand why they wait for those animals to kill so many people before they put them down. Some one have to be changed for such lack of human consideration.
@@jerrenbaltazarr5151 .... What's your age bro🤣🤣... Your great grandfather might not have been born in 1914....see some realistic long documentaries rather than short RU-vid reels
@@jerrenbaltazarr5151 This has a lot to do with the lack of communication at the time. I wondered the same thing how this Tigress was able to kill 436 people before being put down. I then researched and it showed that this tigress was originally from Nepal and after killing villagers it was essentially chased over the borders by the Nepalese army into India. And through evading hunters it developed a massive territory hopping between villages to hunt people. Champwat was basically the centre of its territory so it was seen the most there. The first documented kill happened in 1900 and the tigress was shot dead in 1907. So it’s also not like it happened through a short period of time. That’s roughly 63 kills a year spread between multiple villages and 2 different countries. It was a elusive animal for sure
Corbett was in incredible shape. He'd go on fifty mile marches in the Himalayan foothills in April (the hot time of India) up and down hills all day just to get to a village where a recent maneater visited.
I heard another version where the reason for removing the bounty was to ensure his safety from the bullets of other hunters who might inadvertently shoot him - as happens with trigger happy bounty hunters with dollar signs in their eyes
Yup. It was one of his conditions for taking up the hunt actually. He wanted all the bounties removed so that there will be no friendly fire. He actually got it signed by the district collector (Highest administrative authority of a district in British India). It was well detailed in Corbett's own book "Man eaters of Kumaon".
Rip to tigress ? She was the devil and killed innocent civilians like a villain kill random civilians for one person's cause. Blame the British who killed 100k Tigers and British hunter who wounded tigress
Found out about this lone beast on face book about fifteen minutes ago. Me wanting to know the her origin story only to find out because it was due to some lazy hunter... got angry from that part and my eyes tears when she spoke about how the Hunter felt after realizing the cause of the incident to the mute woman... now I want to read the book.
Its almost always lame or injured big cats that start preying on people. People are slow and easy to catch and dont really have any natural defenses. Its suprising they dont prey on humans more often
Except for Leopards, apparently. They begin to prey on people when they develop a taste for humans. Same with lions. They'll eat humans if they're easy to eat.
@sahil shrestha obviously. They wait until theres one or two and even better for them- if theres small children. Theyr predators, they select the weakest easiest meal.they can even tell when potential prey is injured. Thats how predators roll
The main reason is ecologically they have a predefined set of prey and they try to stick to it. The first attack on human would be mostly of either curiosity or desperation. Once they got a taste and further chances to understand that this prey is weak and they can keep sticking to this diet then its a different story. And also with more social predators like Lions you can also add an additional reason of territorial reasons. It might not interested in eating but definitely wanting to eliminate a oddly looking new threat. For example some predators go for the livestock outright even though there is a weaker prey human coming along with it until unless they know about our profile. For any animals its either fight or flight when they see something new. A cat might run away from you, an elephant might try to trample you and in the same way a carnivore would either run or try to finish you. It doesn't mean that it hunted you for a meal. So its very important for us to give them their space.
"I was benevolent and good. Misery made me a fiend." The creature, in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. A great description of what happened here. Many people suffered due to the actions of one fool, who created a monster.
Geez, those poor sisters... Just the thought of a person chasing and pleading with a tiger to eat them alive instead of their loved one--then, have it vanish before your eyes, while knowing it's eating your family....That hits real different.
The reason behind the extremely low population of tigers in India is the fact that during the British raj, way too many tigers were killed in the name of sport at the hands of the British hunters and some unworthy maharajas. Nature’s wrath was bound to fall upon humanity for the crimes it has committed. It’s quite rare to see a person like Jim Corbett who held utmost respect for nature and served not the British but nature and humanity itself. I pray to lord to bless the fallen souls of these tigers as well as the humans who had to pay the price of others’ misdeeds.
@@vergil4816 I think we have done enough in that area, haven't you? I hope you are still alive when climate change has changed most of the world into a wasteland and we are all climate refugees.
@@lindadesposito3771 We have done enough? We were built by nature for this. A predatory species designed to suck out last bit of valuable resources from planet after planet. The scheming nature has desires to spread out through us.
Jim Corbett had once stated that the Tiger is a large hearted Gentleman, (no offense to the tigress she is large hearted too. My father served with the Indian Forest service and I have been fortunate to meet and experience this magnificent creation on number of occasions. Jim Corbetts the Bachelor of Pawalgarh is another riveting encounter this Tiger was an unusually large one and said to have measured 3.23 meters long.
I’ve heard about the Tsavo man eaters in Africa but I never knew about this tiger in India The stories are scarily similar but the two lions in Kenya were hunting railroad workers The Tsavo lion attacks happened only 9 years before these attacks💯
It was a similar time in history that’s why. Man was beginning to take over more and more of the animals territory so conflicts are inevitable. Only 8 years after this the Sankebetsu brown bear incident happened in Hokkaido, Japan. A brown bear that woke up from hibernation brutally killed 9 people in only 6 days.
This reminds me of the lion twins of Africa that had killed so many villagers. The movie based on it was “The Ghost in the Darkness”. Great movie. There should be a movie based on this. A whole series of man eating animals should be made like that film based on these animals. It would be amazing to hear the stories of these creatures.
You mean the Tsavo Man Eaters? Yeah that was actually when some Indian and African construction workers were building a railway (This was when the British were colonizing Kenya I believe), two maneless male lions attacked the workers at night.
This is a sad tragic and interesting story . Poor girl . This people did not deserve to die because of one cruel man’s mistakes . That pathetic hunter caused so much death and sorrow for the people , and that beautiful tigress . She was miserable and in constant pain . atleast Jim understood that no one here deserved any of this fatality , and that the tigress was only in pain and suffering years , which is why she went insane and sought vengeance on mankind .
Great story but Corbet didn’t stop the villagers from chopping her up out of decency and respect for the tigress, he stopped them because he wanted her fur
True XD But I think it could also have been a little bit more psychological? The tiger had turned into a monster (in their eyes) so it could be a sort of 'don't turn into monsters yourselves' type of thing. But yeah, the pelt was probably worth a pretty penny XD
It wasn't the hunter's cruelty that cause the carnage, it was the hunter's cowardice for not finishing the job. If it was too much for him as it would be for most to finish that job, he had no business shooting the tigress in the first place. To accuse the hunter of cruelty is somewhat disconnected from the sad reality.
I have a feeling that the hunter assumed that he got a decent shot, which I would say was not a bad shot, considering he almost gt the head and that the Tigeress would die of its injuries. Which unfortunately for the hunter as well for over 400 other people and their families did not end very well. Nature's fury is fierce. It will not distinguish between good people or bad people. It will only see us as one of the many species.
Corbett, what a legend! I'm here after reading the book. Ace hunter and a writer par excellence. He literally transports you 100 years back along with him, he had the gift of vivid description The photo shown is of the batchelor of Powalgarh, an exceptionally large tiger , not the Champawat tigress.
That’s amazing the tiger remembers those who have done him wrong. Makes sense for him to kill that many ppl, when humans have been hunting them since forever
This was the third Man-Eater documentary I've listened to, and it's possibly the most heart-breaking all around. Most animals only hunt us as prey due to desperation, starvation and injury, or a combination of all three. While I'm not a huge fan of bears, I DO know that they are opportunists, and will go after what they'll think is an easy meal, especially when WE go into THEIR territory! While I plan to become a hunter someday, I cannot bear the though of something suffering the rest of their lives because someone is a poor shot, or like those monsters who hunt for blood money, wasting lives because they believe it to be a 'sport'! Advanced tech or not, we still live in a hunter/prey world; you can be lucky, or unlucky going into a territory not your own. Hunting itself is a necessity to an animal without quick access to food, and to destroy that livelihood is unforgivable, especially when you don't think of what MIGHT happen should the hunted escape with a grudge! I'm glad the man who ended this horrible tragedy was able to give everyone, including the tigress some dignity, instead of allowing a mob of hurt, angry people to hack her to pieces as if their lives were worthless! That man has earned my respect!
Many many do in fact. And their versions of some are as embellished to their predetermined opinions of the factors involved as this narration trends to in some places. Wild animals have suffered seriously due to one over-riding factor that affects probably every other natural feature detrimentally: human overpopulation. Until this is reduced about 5 fold future generations of humans have a bleak future. Try telling that to geriatric wealthy Orientals craving tigers genitals to assist their libido
She was not a saitaan she was a victim of human cruelty. She said u take my jaws i take your soul. RIP to everyone including the Tigress and jim gorbett was an absolute legendary hunter and human. 🙏
Poor thing sorry for all who lost their lives but I feel for the Tiger it happens but as long as their left alone and respected a Tiger will rarely attack without good reason ie like her situation or grudge RESPECT NATURE IT WILL RESPECT YOU
naive statement, theres no sutch thing has respect in the wild life theres only survival. each living creature only cares about itself. tigers dont care if respect them or not, (mostly because they dont know what that even is) they only care about surviving.
Exactly Feel for both feel for the innocent humans that got there lives taken away unfairly and feel for the tiger that was being Hunted by an incompetent hunter that started this whole horrible mess
Well our ancestors hunted down cats as big as smilodons, homotheriums and cave lions with just bows, spears and swords made out of stones. Those cats were far bigger and deadlier than a Bengal tiger.
I've read about this , apparently this tigress had 2 broken canines and could not hunt her normal prey causing her to resort to humans which were far easier to hunt and kill , this is probably what turned her into a man eater, tigers are great predators and must be respected but for one to actively prey on humans is almost unheard of , and most attacks happen due to human negligence, not actual predation
Maybe she killed so many people in revenge for other tigers that were murdered by the hands of evil human beings. To give humans a taste of their own medicine. Many innocent people may have died due to tigers but many tigers also died due to the hands of humans.
Ironically we humans recognise the ' DEVIL' in other beings but always fail to do so within ourselves which is unfortunately leading to the downfall of mankind 😞
The skin of that tigress is still preserved at the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun. Also Jim Corbett killed another tiger which had killed some 200 people in the Rudraprayag district in Uttarakhand state where Champawat district is also located. There is a bust of Jim Corbett in Rudraprayag where he is hailed as a hero.
The Champawat Devil... It is indeed sad that so many people lost their lives, but my heart also goes out to this Devil. Makes me wonder, Shaitan sach me kaun hai? - Who is the real devil?
One thing we must all accept as Human Beings is that the Universe is not fair. It wasn't fair that one bad hunter shattered the jaw of a Tiger and left her to suffer, but it wasn't fair that the Tiger in a desperate need to survival hunted and killed innocent People. But, such is Life.
It’s important to know why there were so many man-eaters. The brutal rule of the British in India plundered natural resources. They wanted the timber growing in Northern India and built the railroads to get the wood out. Massive cutting of the forests and destruction of habitats of species drove tigers into occupied areas and villages. Once a tiger driven to hunger, kills easy prey like a human, they continue to do so. The British were responsible for this tragedy, and many other horrors in the colonial death grip they had on India. The most grievous killer of poor Indians was not the Bengal tiger, but callous and cruel British civil servants backed by their imperial overlords in (not-so) Great Britain.
Don't forget the Belgium's in West Africa, the French in Indo-China, the Dutch and Portuguese, the Spanish..... Because Britain's global Empire was the largest the world ever seen, other colonial powers are easily overlooked. You do know before the East India Company/Britain ruled all of India the French controlled a large part of India, the Portuguese controlled areas of South India and anon....
Even though you're partially correct, it was nowhere near as bad as you say. Also, tigers weren't driven out of forests into villages, that's just stupid considering how huge India is and how big those forests were. There are several reasons why man eaters are man eaters. First reason is that they are carnivores naturally and if they come up on a human they will naturally attack the human and eat it's meat. Second reason is the outbreak of cholera. Many people died of cholera and had their bones and body rotten in a forest where young tigers would pass through and eat the meat, making them used more and more to eating humans. Some of them were injured by humans obviously, some of them were injured by other animals like porcupines for example. And yes, some humans are cruel, some hunters are bad at hunting and a lot of them leave animals suffering. But creating this false narrative that humans are some devils or in this case the brits that destroyed these huge forests and habitats (they did but not as close as much as you make it out to be) and that they are the reason for that is completely wrong, considering that India is not the only country that had problems with man eaters. I hate these comments that make animals look completely inocent and blame everything on evil brits.
If that tiger ate one of your relatives, I doubt that you would be so sympathetic toward the tiger, especially if the animal was busy chewing your leg off.
@@fabiofernandes9122yeah cause Humans are the worst creatures on earth. Look at Gaza where your humanitarian sapien Jews are killing humans. Get a life bro
Bangladesh fishermen thought they were safe on their boat a fair distance from shore. They started vanishing while everyone was sleeping. The tiger was swimming out to the boat snatching one man at a time. It would turn out death ceremonies where the deceased is sent down the river is how the tigers acquired a taste for people.
There honestly is no good or evil here. The tiger killed and ate people in order to survive. It was necessary to kill it to stop any further destruction. The tiger's shattered jaws could also be after it began killing people and a hunter tried to kill it but it escaped. Tigers are known to hunt humans once they lose their ability to hunt fast or powerful creatures like buffaloes, deers etc either due to old age or injuries
What do you mean, a maneating tiger can target even fully grown humans, leooards on the other hand still largely avoids full grown men so tiger is still more dangerous for human in general
@@matthewszabo1155 what do you mean kid, you seem like a westerner, i've grown here in the Himalayas Nepal, tigers are way more frightening, when leopards turn maneater village men gather and go to the jungle in search of them maneaters in contrast when tigers turn maneaters the whole village becomes empty, absoluetly no one dares venture out from their homes..... ...imagine some psycho rogue shooter on the vicinity of your neighbourhood runninglose feels like that
Jim Corbet was one of the greatest and noblest hunters. A great personality with full knowledge of villages in Himalayan foothills and surrounding forests. He had great linking for nature, animals and villagers.
@@AbsurdandFantastical actually, yes I do ! C.J, kitty, and my two new additions to my family, Jewel and Griffin ( my profile pic is griffin around two weeks of age I’m pretty sure :D)
cats as pets are so overrated.. If you need to declaw them or walk around on your toes to not piss them off.. That tells me they aren't worth as being good pets. Rodents make for better pets than shitty house cats...
Lmao a bunch of snowflakes are offended because they called this tigress a devil. Somehow the lives of 436 people are not much important but the reputation of the animal is.
@@charlieberry7562 if you see things in the context of early 20th century rural india ( people who were highly superstitious) you will understand why they said so. So i think its immaterial what they named her or thought of her. What isn’t immaterial is that a lot of people lost their lives. People whining about the ‘fact’ that the tigress wasn’t evil or something supernatural kind of overshadows the importance of the human lives lost.People deserved more sympathy. Thats my point.
