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
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.
@@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
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.
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
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.
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 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...
@bablubaban008 He is the greatest hunter of all time and he saved lives of hundreds of people by single handedly bringing down some of the deadliest man eaters ever. He deserves all the respect he can get. Also it's hypocritical when people call these hunters out for hunting while they eat meat and are no better than hunters
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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,
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)
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.
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
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.
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 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".
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
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 UA-cam 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, 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.
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
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
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.
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 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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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
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 .
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 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!
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.
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
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
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?
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
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.
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.
@@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...
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
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.
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.
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 😞
@@johnmead8437 i lived in a place in south india called Wayanad. (Kenneth Anderson killed a Maneater there). I got off the place and was in Bangalore. 6 months after I left to Blore.. a Maneater killed 2 people there. The second victim close to a road way between a tea plantation. I once walked all alone on that road broad daylight and no vehicles to help me.
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
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.
India named their first national park after Jim Corbet. It is now one of the best places on earth to see tigers.
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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
Top droor. It's amazing how quickly we stopped worrying about tigers, and how we have to help them live. Top droor indeed
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.
Well he was born in India so ...
@@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?
@@animal-rights Man eating tiger have rights, rights to be shot dead.
Yeah I’m trying to figure out how many books he has . It’s fascinating
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.
"Tigers are known to hold a grudge." That's comforting.
Its of NO comfort to this poor Tigress. Humana hild FAR more grudges AND for FAR FAR longer.
@@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
I'd say that's bollocks
@@rankingresearchdatawhat's that got to do with anything lol
@@Hellbillyhokit’s not true
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.
You seem Indian dose this still happen??
@@andrewhatton1606 yes absolutely. In the Sundarban jungles alone we lose about 40 to 100 people a year to tigers.
@@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.
@Mr. Millions for a injury like that,for sure.Yet a lot of times it’s just because people are food
@@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
'Her jaw, completely shattered on top and below, was a cry against humanity.'
That line was so moving! The narrator did a wonderful job.
But tiger was killing humans
@@sahusumit47 so?
@@SiD19884 Well then why should humans show humanity
@@sahusumit47 they're saying that a hunter previously shot the tiger in the mouth. That's why the tiger started hunting humans.
@@sahusumit47 because the tiger was killing humans because of human stupidity.
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 Makes me furious. There used to be a hundred thousand tigers in India alone before the british. Same with rhinos.
@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.
Jim Corbett was an honorable man. There is a reason a national park is named after him in India.
British is the reason
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....
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@@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.
Dosent matter he was human who worked for the nature for the people
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.
So did I! Really put me on a path to find a true balance with nature.
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
@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 you are a loon
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.
Thank you! :D ♥
That’s my ex wife. We made it to the alter but when she was asked to say “I do” she started narrating a man-eating tiger video”. It was …strange? Idk
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 spot on hit the nail on the head.
@@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?
@@KibernautasVikas is pointing out the fact that most people don’t respect nature and the other animals that share this world.
@@andrefromelpasotexas3236 And I am pointing out the fact that any animal, that go to be maneater, must be eliminated. That is law of nature too.
“…he could not allow the villagers to hack her to pieces….. her pelt was far too valuable…”
LOLLOL!
@ Happy Bee
You are absolutely right bro 🙌
"But he showoffed himself by carrying her from village to village." What a naturalist.😂😂 dick
@@prasunchandrakar6020 maybe it was to give confidence to the villagers, to make them believe that 'The Devil' was really dead.
Would be priceless today. Some bits of history are golden idols and art, stone art etc. That one was a biological specimen.
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.
Have you read Kenneth Anderson? How do you compare his writing to Cornett's?
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...
It's not a novel...
Another of his books, Jungle Lore, is an excellent account of the time and situations he experienced.
Gore lie all the time.. they cause problems then act like they are the only ones who can fix them.. i wouldnt believe what a gora tells you
I can't believe how well he explained the location and situation. Huge respect for Jim Corbett. I just love his books.
@Bakasur Kumbhkarna Cope
@bablubaban008 He is the greatest hunter of all time and he saved lives of hundreds of people by single handedly bringing down some of the deadliest man eaters ever. He deserves all the respect he can get. Also it's hypocritical when people call these hunters out for hunting while they eat meat and are no better than hunters
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!
@@AbsurdandFantastical I might actually do that
@ 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.
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So some dude shot this tiger and left it to suffer the rest of it's life? That's so sad. What a total bastard.
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.
This story carries a great lesson for all of us.
It’s a powerful message for our times.
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 don't believe this story could have been told any better. Being an advocate for the tigress, and for mankind simultaneously!! very well done!!
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.
My uncle own farming land in UP. He lives in the middle of tigers habitats. He says that he never bothers tigers and tigers never bother him.
well how else would they glorify their illegal occupation of the Indian subcontinent
@Dhhajhfhfjdjsjjssk true!
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 guess those tigers aren't hungry enough.
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.
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."
Shut up
@AARYAN too ugly he will stare few secs and leave
@AARYAN Tiger is a Hero and should've taken more!!
@@PSAV76 starting with you
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 `tigers can be stealthy, cunning and humans are vulnerable
@@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.
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.
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!
We are the worst for killing, people are the cruelest animal of all
Who knows how tiger calls the hunter....a tiger-eater ? One has to speak from their perspective 🤷♀️
Felt bad for all those animals
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,
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)
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.
shh youre not supposed to say the white man hunted and killed animals for fun
Ever seen the series jungle Jim? Some base off him ..
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
agree - he wrote in clear and humble style. Love his books.
Jim Corbett is a damn legend. Man single handedly took down some of the biggest man eaters ever.
He killed only 400 but humans (British and Indian kings) killed 40000 tigers. By god's grace now we have 3400 tigers all over India ❤
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.
Because chinese poached them all for TCM. @redlizerad8268
Great job by the Indian govt as a Bangladeshi I wish India can preserve our majestic Bengal tiger species.
Imagine a movie on the life of Jim Corbett. Would be a masterpiece.
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 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".
When I read the title "When the Devil came to India", I thought the video must be about the British Coloniser 😅
The tiger hunted for survival whereas the callous human who wounded her and left her to suffer was after her fur!
Who is the devil here?
humans will do mindless shit to other animals and call it 'the food chain' well then, a tiger eating you is also part of the food chain, Chad.
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
@@yoanjun3997exactly you cant have it one way some humans need to realise that we are not the only thing on this earth that deserves to live
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 shut up. There's way too many of you undesirables and too few tigers
@@jerrenbaltazarr5151 .... What's your age bro🤣🤣... Your great grandfather might not have been born in 1914....see some realistic long documentaries rather than short UA-cam 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
This is a great video! The narration is perfect 👌👍
Ah! Thanks! I tried to add some effects this time around, I'm so glad it worked 😄
@@AbsurdandFantastical you did great! Sometimes UA-cam is a form of Art; your video is.
@@risboturbide9396 She doesn't pronounce Corbett the right way but she does have a lovely articulate voice !
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.
how's the book?
*Kumarshaheb
Man Eaters was one of the first books I read, it opened up the world to me. I love that book even now.
Sad that the tiger was died and also happy at the same time that the villagers were out of terror...RIP to the victims and tiger 😪
Exactly well said
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
I have read almost all books by Mr Jim Corbett. I appreciate your presentation. Great job.
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
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.
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.
We r the real beasts.
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.
@@AbsurdandFantastical which they are.
@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
@sahil shrestha also we tend to exterminate everything that for whatever reason prey on us
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.
What a beautiful narration. Your voice is extremely soothing to hear!
Thank you! ♥♥
The narrator is absolutely amazing. What a soothing voice . I wish she could have read the whole man eating leopard of rudraprayag.
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.
"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.
I still don't think she was a monster. She was doing what she needed to survive.
@@justmejenny7986 She killed hundreds of people, but it was one foolish human who indirectly caused this.
Well Jim Corbett did a great work for villagers of champavat. I had gone through his book Man-eaters of Kumaon
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.
Add one more gifts of the basterd brits gave to us
Nature's wrath? Our wrath should be unleashed upon that evil primitive scheming entity. Nature is the ultimate villian .
@@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.
@@vergil4816 feeling small ? Cause your nothing in the eye of nature
@@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.
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💯
So many more in reality
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You have no idea about the Tigers of India. Search Bengal Tigers of Sunderbans. I can tell you stories about them
Tiger was eating Indians in India and the Lions were also eating Indians(railroad labourers) in Africa.
@@oftaps yeah 😅
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.
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.
jim corbett wrote a book about this tiger , read it he was not only an amazing conservationist but also a brilliant writer
Very impressive story. Really tells the story of intervention between human and big cats. Tysm for sharing ❤
many years ago..when I was a kid...my time passed reading the stories of Brave Jim Corbet.
So basically crippling tigers turn them into man eaters
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
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 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
Champawat is a district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Always been fascinated by this story great job in bringing it to life in this video very well crafted
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 .
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 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!
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.
how do we know it wasn't self defense? for all they knew, they shot the tiger and it ran off....don't be so quick to rush to judgement.
@@TheNemesis442 Yea hes right every hunter knows How important is to find the shoot animel there is No excuses for this
@@benzelwasington4059 you shouldn't jump to conclusions without knowing both sides. doing so is just plain stupidity.
Funny, nobody ever talks about the animals killed by people
@ Kevin Simon's
There's an African proverb
" Until the Lion learns how to write every story will glorify the hunter "
I think you got it.
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
I get so excited when your videos pop up
Oh, wow! Thanks! 😀 I'm always so happy when you comment!
@@AbsurdandFantastical shit I might be a little late but I'll always comment
I read about the champawat tigress from Jim Corbett’s biography . Really a fascinating story
I have read all of Corbets books. They are all well worth reading 👍👍😀
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
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?
such a human move.. the tiger will honestly stalk you with some integrity and the human resorts to trickery
Tiger literally went out like Emile did from the end of Halo Reach - “I’m ready, how about you!!!”
Though this story was older, But after hearing this story it gave me chills 🥶🥶
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
You are absolutely right about nature and it's children
@@thetruth-n8x aren't humans also nature's children
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
You have to imagine the number more than 400 in a low populated area like damn right they were shitting their pants for four days.
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.
what did the indian villagers had to do with the killing of the tigers?.
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.
Surely the most stunning deadly beautiful animal nature has created in this era
My cat loving self loved this video and found it very enjoyable to watch :D
Awe! Do you have a cat? I have one at home, she is a Bombay called Licorice 😀
@@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...
@@americangangsterlock1550 STFU, declawing cat is a crime. It's animal abuse.
@@AbsurdandFantastical I have a Himalayan. I see him a layan on my truck or him a layan on my porch....lol. I LOVE cats.
The beautiful painting of Corbett aiming at a tiger at 8:14 I believe is of the Chowgarh Tigress.
Hey! That didn't slip by you XD I was aware it was the wrong one, but it fitted the scene so I decided to use it. Thanks for checking out the vid KM!
@@AbsurdandFantastical Might be a bit more artistic/dramatic license applied too...
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
There is no really goo and evil in animals, since almsot all of them hunt on instinct and hunger.
Corbett alighned his energy and did what needed to be done. He took the money factor away and had a proper mindset..
Jim Corbett's "Maneater of Kumaon" is a must-read for fans of this sort of story. Corbett was a stud.
interesting .want to see more of these . and also Man eaters of Tsavo
Watch bob gymlan. Dude made a hour long episode about it
@@ryu9687 thanks will watch
@@ryu9687 where's the link mate
@@joshiabhinav ua-cam.com/video/mAKxcNQpiSg/v-deo.html
Ghost and The Darkness is a great movie about it.
This narration is excellent. I couldn't stop listening. Great work!
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....
How many REPORTED rapes in India so far this year???
@@teessideman.8253 Less than number of Indians killed by Britishers on a daily basis.
@@teessideman.8253 Less than the no. of Grooming gangs in Europe !
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.
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.
No hunter can be called noble or great. Killing beautiful nature for fun is the lowest of the low
Jim Corbett's book "Temple Tiger" is a pretty good read on the subject of man-eaters.
fact for non Indians, we have a national park named after jim corbett and tigers are preserved there
There is no such thing as monsters only humans
Just like you!
Calling yourself monster is not a good idea 😊
this gave me chills
it’s scary
this really should be made into a film by a director who understands
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 😞
Now do the ManEaters of Tsavo aka The Ghost and the Darkness.
Damn and I thought the “Ghost and the Darkness “ were bad ass
You have yet to hear the stories of other man eaters in India.
@@akashsuresh1369 Yep, the Tsavo lions were amateurs
@@johnmead8437 i lived in a place in south india called Wayanad. (Kenneth Anderson killed a Maneater there). I got off the place and was in Bangalore. 6 months after I left to Blore.. a Maneater killed 2 people there. The second victim close to a road way between a tea plantation. I once walked all alone on that road broad daylight and no vehicles to help me.
The tiger isn’t the devil it’s the man who hunts the tiger
And destroy their habitats
No
Tell that to the families whose loved ones are killed and eaten.
Hunt or be hunted
Lack of civic sense is the result of things said by yu. 436 ppl were killed & yu are implying the man who hunted him to be evil?! Wat an a hole
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
She was huge. She was a tough old girl. No human would have stood a chance against her without a firearm.
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.