What Is The Scariest Man-Hunting Animal? 

Also, Jim Corbett is remembered for tracking, hunting & killing man-eaters in British India but he also did HUGE amounts of conservation work. He basically grew up and lived alongside the Indian wildlife, he was a bit of a British mowgli in a way, and the reason he was able to hunt down these vicious man-eaters was because he knew, understood and respected these animals so much. He was personally responsible for spreading the word in a time which, as Forrest puts it, was 'different' that we need to protect nature and these animals.

The 45 year old night cougar.

I will go for the polar bear, because it could eat you while you alive, I would think crocs grap and would drown you first, and the big cats would go for the neck for a quick kill. I would guess the polar bears really mauls you to death and you proberly see it coming from a mile away, knowing there is no where to go, thats way more scary, then a quick kill from a cat or croc. Those killers would be quicker in killing you. Awesome popcast guys, love it!!!, keep on going, greetings from the Netherlands

Just wanted to say that the tiger only hunted humans because she could no longer hunt her normal prey because of being injured. This made a big difference.

WWI wolves would attack wounded on both sides it got so bad because of the war no wild game all the wolves formed a super pack and even hunted the scouts snipers and hunters sent to put an end to the reports of wolf attacks. Eventually both sides had to form an alliance to put the homicidal pack down.

I would love to see a movie about Jim Corbett come out but sadly I think it wouldn't be appreciated and likely bomb in theatre

Maybe I'm just ignorant, but wasn't there a wolf pack in the 1450s that hunted people in the streets of Pais France? I thought there were numerous stories of European wolves that targeted women and children specifically during harsh winters.

Tigers are the scariest IMO because they hold grudges. Idk if any croc has ever been said to have over 300 victims like some tigers. Ok NeverMind I guess Gustav has, but that report is considered to be over exaggerated because any missing person was credited to Gustav.

Jim Corbett is a legend. There is a RU-vid channel that does stories about man eaters, Jim comes up in nearly every video as the one who was able to kill the cat. He would sit alone in trees, or huts with the door open essentially using himself as bait. Many stories involved him in a standoff with the cat and making decisions that save his life just by gut instinct and previous experiences. Killing a cat is not sad when we are talking about a maneater, normally the cat is injured and would otherwise starve if not for eating humans. These are real people who may lose a child or spouse and don't have the means to protect themselves. I am 100% a conservationist at heart but I am also 100% on team people when it comes to literally life and death.

The fact he was able to track those animals in another country and the people that lived there their whole lives couldn't.

Easy one guys. The Komodo Dragon. It's lives on an island, so there is literally no escaping one. And they WILL hunt humans.

Wasn't there a truce during ww2 so that they could take out a wolf pack that was hunting humans in Paris?

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I’m going to vote for bears. Even if I had a weapon, I’d still fear a huge Kodiak grizzly or polar bear.

Tigers. You Will never see one in the wild until it's too late

Jim Corbett has also a national park named after him in India

"it's not Frankenstein, it's Frankenstein. Are you Igor?" "No it's Igor. Are you from Burundi?" "It's not Burundi, it's Burundi"

Polar bears for sure. Croc attack you’ll likely drown pretty quickly and big cats go for the neck or sever the spinal cord to kill you. Bears just pin you down and start eating. If you’ve ever seen video of a polar bear eating a seal, the seal is usually still alive while the bear tears into it. Bone chilling….

There’s always 1 guy in the call like this dude. “Pick a number between 1 and 5” “17!”

saltwater crocodiles are just as smart as niles, I have no idea where you got that from, the only reasons there are not many stories of salties intelligently hunting people is because Australia isn't a third world country, people dont need to go to the river to clean/get water, I don't see how salties which outclass niles in length, weight, and aggression couldn't be considered "tougher", just because there is no possibility for a gustave situation to happen with salties due to how developed Australia is doesn't mean salties are worse at hunting and killing people, ask any person who owns adults of both species which one is more aggressive/ ferocious and which one they would avoid going into the enclosure of, they will always say the salties, both salties and niles have hunted people for thousands of years, both have been shown to be able to learn and understand the drinking patterns of animals to figure out the best time for an ambush, both have snatched people from boats, in terms of hunting abilities when it comes to humans any distinction between them is completely pointless and location biased, there will be nearly no difference between a saltie that wants you dead and a nile that wants you dead, if you go near the water regularly both will learn your patterns and kill you, no exceptions one is not more scary to be hunted by than the other

Peter looks like Forrest Gump 3 months into his run right now

I've been a hunter all my life, I've also been a conservationist all my life. Over the years I have donated thousands of dollars to conservation efforts and I've met some hunters that have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to efforts. Hunter were and are the first conservationist.

Putting anything in a museum in Chicago is just a riot away from being lost forever.

I would argue that a polar bear would be the scariest because of the length of time you would be alive and aware of your death as you watch the animal come at you and eat you alive. The other animals such as cats and crocodiles you will never see coming and they will also kill you quickly.

Crock lays in wait, opportunist. What animal will actually hunt you ignoring other prey? Have heard stories of a tiger and a brown bear and a cobra will stalk and single you out from other humans.

Large Crocs man they SCARYYY!!

saltwater crocodiles have been known to hunt one particular person for weeks or months until they get them. but luckily australians aren't as reliant on going to the water daily and saltwater crocodiles aren't as social as nile crocodiles. either way if you go in the water with a crocodile your chances are slim to f all

David Attenborough once said; when filming a polarbear hunting seal on the ice, they had a hard time predicting were it came up after swimming under the ice. It came up on unexpected places. They soon realiesed that the bear wasnt hunting the seal... it was hunting them. Polarbears are the only mammal where every individual see you as food.

Jim Corbett did it for Tigers. man eating tigers. In the Jim Corbett there are both leopards & tigers, but predominantly tigers.

Other homie pronounced Burundi correctly don’t know why Forrest said that.. but totally agree Nile crocodiles kill and eat somewhere between 1000-3000 annually hands down scariest man eating animal on earth.

A big pro for hunting down man eating animal in my view would be that, if they are left to live those animals will teach and train their offsprings to hunt and eat specifically humans. This case is more related to mammals.

Tigers by far. No debate necessary.

What about the wolves that hunted people I heard that story It happened in Finland

The locals were going to rip the dead tiger to pieces until Jim calmed them into respecting it.

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I love animals but if one gets a taste for human it’s gotta go, like after 2 people it’s gotta go.

Gustav was killed? That sucks i remember a documentary where he was mistaken for a sandbank LMAO

It’s clearly a polar bear… it is superior to humans both on land and water, while a crocodile isn’t the best on land.

Hey, I had a praying mantis come at me. I didn't sleep for days😮.

I bet Jim Corbett could find the Thylacine.

The mosquito, is a perfect hunter for us humans

Fun fact during WW1 1915 there was a cease fire between the Germans and Russians to hunt wolves, that were hunting the troops.

Lep or polar bear. Leperard because it crushes your skull and aims for it, and polar bear because they can smell you through ice and miles away... plus they are a bear.

Champawat is in Uttarakhand, Nepal

All caps will at least grab you by the neck and kill you before they eat you. A crocodile will drown you. A bear will just hold you down and take chunks out while you suffer

Crocs are vicious. They just sit and wait.

Im sure if Forrest grew up in The Sundarbans his answer would be Bengal Tiger.

The maneaters of Njombe. A pride of 15 lions that killed close to 1500 people.

Is there proof Gustave is actually dead? I heard he was killed but thought a picture would surface

Plenty of modern day hunters are big in conservation, and hate people who abuse or destroy natural habitat. As a hunter in the USA I can't stand poachers, and people who intionally destroy habitat for wildlife. Now I also don't know if that is not what you were getting at. But discredit hunters for being blood thirsty is all.

The crocodile shown on the wall was killed by Steve Curle in Zimbabwe.

I say polar bear easily based off my knowledge. Like a polar bear you can't stop that like a polar bear soaked in blood. But yes the reasoninv for the others are excellent

Forrest is right, Saltwater crocodile are nothing to scoff at but Nile crocodiles are way more dangerous

Gotta go with anything u don't see until it's on your back tearing you apart. So def leopard for me. Just walking through the jungle minding your own business, admiring the floura and fau... (A sharp stabbing raking pain down your shoulder and into your lower back... And that's just the beginning)

I think that croc photo is using forced perspective to make it seem larger. The people are standing way back from the croc.

And think how many tigers and crocs people kill compared to them killing us

I have been to the area with leopards and tigers. I have encountered leopard a few times as well. As they are in the area i live. But they don't scare me as much as tigers. I feel like i have some chances. Miniscule but still some chances of fighting it off. Or atleast last a little maybe till i get some help. But a tiger, it's instant kill. Even if you are in a group, it could just kill you quickly and run off with your body.

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4:25, that photo is forced perspective, that is not Gustave as he has his death or capture has never officially been confirmed, any and all attempts to do so have ended in failure

I'd say jaguars.

Wolves definitely do hunt people sometimes.

We might not see Jim Corbett as a hero but I promise you all the locals did.

‘It’s so easy. What do you think?’ ‘Simple dude, wolves.’ ‘They don’t even hunt humans.’

For all the reasons you listed, I would actually argue a man eating tiger is the scariest animal. Need water? You have to go in the tiger's territory. Need food? Same. Need to use the bathroom? Same. There are also plenty of instances where tigers have pulled people from their homes by digging through the walls. A crocodile at least you can sleep at night without being eaten unless you are sleeping right up to the water.

hippos?

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Jaguar...anything that can swim & pull out an anaconda & eat it has my attention.

I was going to say hippos

I’m sorry. But WOLVES do hunt people. Maybe is not a common behaviour but I’ve heard enough hunting stories and growing up in Muskoka Canada to know otherwise.

This is a guy that said leopards are bigger than jaguars

For me it will always be a tiger 🐅

The human.

Jim guy was way in the past that's insane. Well he is killing some man eating animals who are actively hunting humans on these small villages

Human’s not on the list? I think that’s the most terrifying. It’s the only that’ll do it just for fun

Who was the German guy who wrote that rare book "tigre!" About his time spent hunting man eating leopards and other cats sometimes with spears insane stuff

my first thought is a hippo, they kill over 500 humans a year on average in africa

Guys, is Gustave still alive?

The champawat devil

Tiger all day

They all will end you. My choice would be down to quickest, most painless death. Tiger would be better than bear, .... don't know about the others.

They really not going to talk about the Beast of Gevaudan?

Some leopards killed hundreds of people in India. They would go into huts in the middle of the day.

Does anyone know if Gustav was actually killed by humans?

I don't think that there's an intelligence difference between a Nile croc or a Salty how can this guy just say things like that? All the characteristics that he describe about Nile crocodiles are well know as well within Salt water crocodiles the difference is that salt water crocodiles hunt from Northern Australia all the way up to India.

Mosquitos hunt humans i think i win

Why on the list of animals did they miss the number 1 animal to hunt humans is... humans

Middle age white male kills 1 person = life in prison/ death penalty Tiger kills 400 people = let's feel bad he had to kill the tiger lol

It makes me angry when you act like an act of killing an animal by its Nature has to be defended to be recognized as not being something that was just inherently wrong to do.... I don't want you out there reassuring people that supposedly love animals but are too stupid to know it's good to kill them sometimes..... but yes it was good to do that this time or that time or whatever time you're talkin about. They need to be treated like their stupid for not being aware of that already. Unless they are like you know grade-schoolers. Even then. Not every level of grade school is tolerable, some of them still have to be treated like they are stupid if they think that.

Why did they say that wolves aren't man-hunters? Didn't they besiege entire towns in the midieval times?

The fact he grew up around them makes it biased when he says nile croc's i am sure if he grew up around salt water croc's in Australia he wouldn't be saying nile croc's. if he wants to have a unbiased opinion he needs to study and actually interact with saltie's in the northern territories to see which one he thinks is more brazen and daring to actively hunt humans most of the time nile's snatch people from the side of rivers which is there natural instinct same for saltie's but saltie's have been known to jump in boats, capsize, disable, pull people from them, move billabongs or watering holes to hunt humans in the nile's case its mainly due to the fact that people have no choice but to coexist there so attacks are more frequent and wide spread across the whole nile i am sure if salties had a active population of humans on the river banks in the thousands which in places like Indonesia and Philippines they have a population on the banks but not much but if there was more they would be killing a lot also you cant base your whole argument oh i lived with them my whole life and there far worse but that's because of circumstance if you look at saltie's they are by far smarter and more calculated in how they achieve results in killing humans

Without a doubt, crocodiles. All the big cats will kill you before they start to feed on your body.

HUMANS are the scariest hunters dude

Big cats kill there pray bears will eat you alive crocodile will drowned you and that will suck! Croc or bear by far the worst

Feral dogs, because they're wild apex predators yet lack a fear of humans.

Look if you have animals and they are purposely taking human life than take the animals life i love sharks but if they was a rogue shark that was killing 400 people kill that shark human life is more important its the way of life tbh things die things get killed it happens

Machismo. The testosterone of youth and the camaraderie from your peers makes you outweigh the damage you can do because of the hype you feel. Get famous off of killing things you feel bad when you reflect that you killed things. I'm sure as you lose that invincible feeling of youth as well you connect with the animals, who were probably in the same exact mental state as those the hunter. Young, strong and blind naive instincts turn to grizzled Wisdom for those hunters

Men (white ones in particular)

No way the most famous man eater of all time would have been a lion. Even if lions are very sneaky they still operate in packs, so you can spot them a lot easier than a tiger or leopard which are always alone. I knew it had to be a tiger

3rd

If you Talley up the amount of each of these animals humans have killed it isn’t even close. So the fact that these animals kill humans by the hundreds its fuckin karma.