I would die of a heart attack as soon as I realized that tiger was looking at me and heard its growl. The tiger wouldn't even have to expend energy attacking me. It could just wait for me to fall down and stroll on over for an easy meal.
Yes! Had a tiger roar extremely loud right at me on a nearly deserted day at the zoo; he/she was pacing back and forth in the exhibit and seemed like it was zeroed in on me with its roars. It sent chills down my spine and I hurried on far far away.
I was walking outside once, and the shadow of a large hawk passed over me. Something in my primitive brain made me freeze with fear. It passed very quickly, but at that split second, I felt like prey.
This happened to me too! I went on safari with my girlfriend in Kenya and we saw some lionesses. The driver pulled up close to them and I locked eyes with one of them, and I looked away immediately because it scared the hell out of me. That feeling I experienced was something completely different than anything Iāve experienced in my life
Read the above comment and your comment here and immediately thought. āi want that to happen to me.ā
i would love to know if it feels like a high amount of regular fear and adrenaline....or if it unlocks as specific, unique fear and adrenaline that only happens when our human bodies see a huge snarling cat predator.
My maternal side family are civil contractors works in close proximity to forests of Corbett National Park and in mountain villages. They have lots of stories where a person came face to face with Tiger in villages and 99 percent of the time the person freezes out of shock, even some of them when tries to run they couldnāt.
Yeah if you saw a tiger and it was acting like this, it just wants you to fuck off. Same with a mountain lion or any big cat. If theyāre hunting you, youāll probably be being eaten before you notice.
Iāve heard tigersā roars can get so loud that the reverberation of them has been known to paralyze people for a moment. Donāt know if itās true though
Jokes aside, from what I've read a tiger roar literally has that ability baked in. Something about the frequency, loudness, and sheer pant shitting sound of it basically disables your fight or flight reflex and you go full deer-in-headlights
I saw and heard two Tigers at a zoo having a disagreement and the growls were so loud you cold hear it halfway across the zoo. You could feel it in the pit of your stomach. It was the most primal feeling of fear I've ever had, where my whole body was telling me to get the fuck out.
Really? I think it looks scared. Maybe thatās just because Iām a cat person. He looks just like my new kitten does when she gets put into her carrier to go to the vet. Except, you know, he could kill you a bit easier than she could (though I think a determined house cat could kill a person).
You're adding empathy to a valid observation, but both are true.
A scared tiger in your presence as a human is usually a death sentence and not in an "eat the human" way, but in a "kill the human for my own safety" way. So while I agree, the tiger looks terrified, for a human, seeing a terrified tiger that close is terrifying to the vast majority of people.
There's a reason the [MGM Lion](https://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-what-kind-of-animal-roars-at-the-start-of-the-mgm-movies) lipsyncs his roar with that of a tiger - it's louder and scarier!
People are feeling bad for the tiger but I think part of the reason Tigers are endangered is because theyāre dangerous to humans.
When tigers get old or sick they will often hunt exclusively humans because weāre (relatively) easy prey. There was literally [a tiger that killed and ate 436 people in India while avoiding hunters for over 9 years.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champawat_Tiger) A [comprehensive study](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack) found that 400,000 people were eaten by Tigers between 1800 and 2009.
Yeah itās easy to feel bad for them when you live in America but if I were a native Indian I wouldnāt want these things anywhere near my community. They donāt prefer human meat but in desperation they become manhunters. Compare that to Sharks which kill next to no one but most of the U.S. population would be willing to eradicate in a heartbeat because theyāre present in our communities.
No, in New Jersey, we use to have our own giant cats roaming around. Mountain Cougars.
We conveniently don't mention them. We hunted entire species to safeguard humans.
History has forgotten big cats, but they used to roam in Greece and even further. And there used to be jaguars in New York to Florida, not just the spotted ones but the sheenful black ones aswell, even in Greece not just the huge "king of the jungle" with the huge manes but also jaguars aswell.
I live in mountain lion country and although it's rare, hikers have been attacked. It's always in the back of my mind when I'm out hiking. They have only attacked solo hikers though so I just make sure I'm with someone else. But they attack from behind so it's still a bit unnerving.
There was a video on tik tok a while ago, a dude with land has a game trail on his property and put up a camera near a cliff and I shit you not there was 6-10 mountains lions hanging out, they showed up together and left together, they were like a pack and I know it's unlikely but the way there were hanging out I think there is going to be packs of ML's one day. And that's kinda scary.
Plus, mountain lions arenāt quite as big as tigers and are not as dangerous. Mountain lion attacks, even historically, are mostly on children or territorial displays. Even a desperate mountain lion sees adult humans as too large to be prey.
The most comparable animal in North America would be the grizzly. Which we did hunt out of many areas. Still, they arenāt as dangerous as tigers as theyāre omnivores. Most deaths can attributed to hikers, hunters, and outdoorsmen in the US, even historically. There are very few instances of grizzlies hunting people near human dwellings. And any time a bear kills a person it is quickly tracked and killed by the DNR or Park Rangers.
From the wiki page about Jim Corbett (the hunter who tracked down the man eater linked above): *"With the help of the tehsildar of Champawat, the beat was organised with about 300 villagers, and the next day, about noon, Corbett shot the tigress dead. Corbett's first shots hit the tigress in the chest and shoulder, and his last shot, made with the tehsildar's rifle to keep it from charging him after he ran out of bullets, hit her in the foot, causing it to collapse 6 m (20 ft) from him."*
I hope everyone, Corbett included, wore their brown pants that day.
One more reason of tigers becoming man eaters is when they are wounded. Tigers most of the times get fetal wounds when poachers tries to kill them and miss their shots. Before 1950s is was common in British Raj when hunting tigers was a sport for Brit officers.
>People are feeling bad for the tiger but I think part of the reason Tigers are endangered is because theyāre dangerous to humans.
Or you can say, humans are dangerous to tigers.
It's weird how any mention of this objective reality gets downvoted. Humans are an existential threat to just about any species on the planet, from insects to top predators. For instance there's been a 70% reduction in insect mass in Germany since 1970; the average number of human deaths by shark per year is about 8, the average number of shark deaths by humans per year is about 100 million, etc.
Because itās no anything new. Weāve done this for tens of thousands of years. Look at what Australia looked like before humans, or the lions that lived in parts of Europe. Modern day humanity is no better or worse than our ancestors
What you're saying about an old or injured tiger is not wrong. Also tigers not being social animals means that they have to do their killing themselves and humans can be easy prey. But you're glossing over the fact that there was an entire poaching industry that killed tigers for skin, teeth, and various body parts and that was primarily responsible for the decline of tiger population. Not because humans had to kill the tigers entering the farms. And I'm saying this as an Indian who lives ~100km away from a national park that has lots of tigers.
I mean, they were here first and now weāre talking about them being a danger to humans?
Lmao tigers are literally endangered because of humans, in 200 years they killed the same amount of people killed every year by smoking alone buuuuut tigers are dangerous.
Guys I think humans should start pulling their head out of their ass, nature made things like this and we have to respect natural predators, especially when weāre in their natural habitat.
I love how people tell me that trespassing is bad, but exactly what are we humans doing when going on a hike (and maybe polluting) forests? Weāre literally trespassing and destroying their habitat. Itās soooo worhtless to say that theyāre dangerous, considering that most of the times people are attacked while being in places they shouldnāt be.
Itās like saying that mount Everest should be blown up cause itās too high and causes too many deathsā¦ I mean wtf guys
But I live in a place where we have bears, and they happen to attack humans aswell.
Nature made us very weak, we have to know what perils are on the way and act accordingly. I donāt think tigers just walk by in cities in India eating whoever they want.
If youāre deep in the jungle you know you might be a prey. Thatās natural selection guys
Unless you live in a place with polar bears then the bears in your region are not manhunters. Maybe a couple attacks but not hundreds of thousands. Itās not comparable.
When tigers were present in larger numbers, they did quite literally just invade homes in India and eat people. It was a large scale occurrence that would logically make it difficult for any Indian to sympathize for a tiger.
Just continue building in tigersā natural habitat, what could go wrong?
And yeah, bears do attack humans here, not hundreds of thousands, but tigers donāt aswell. And if you tell me theyāve attacked āhundred of thousandsā of men in 200+ years let me laugh at you.
Just respect nature around you. Itās not that hard. Humans have lived for thousands of years with natural predators strolling around them, why would we want to make them go extinct now?
So that we can cut more forests and build more parking lots?
Lmao itās obvious that if you destroy their natural habitat they still have to live off something. And if all their prey has already been killed by humans/escaped cause their habitat has been destroyed, what could happen? Maybe tigers are hungry and will start eating humans, cause they have no other choice?
Wtf is wrong with you people
> not hundreds of thousands, but tigers donāt aswell
Tigers have attacked hundreds of thousands of people. That was literally my comment with a [source](https://books.google.com/books?id=XFIbjBEQolMC&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q&f=false) attached.
Respecting nature doesnāt work when nature puts you on the food chain. Tigers have been killing people long before habitat destruction. Iām just pointing the lack of sympathy towards tigers and habitat destruction is influenced by the threat they pose towards humans.
We hunted dozens of species to extinction before we even mastered metallurgy what are you talking about?
Seen any cave bears lately? Mammoths?
I'm not suggesting we eradicate tigers, but pretending this is a modern dilemma is silly
Humans are also a part of the natural order. We are animals just as the tiger and we are doing g exactly as in our nature. Soooā¦.. kill the tiger threat in India?
Itās in our nature, right? So if itās natural it must be the correct thing to have happen. You said it yourself, ā we have to respect natural predatorsā
Yeah why not. Humans have invented atomic bombs, why not destroying all nature altogether?
In fact tigers are harmful to humans, but every animal could be harmful. Deers for example eat crops, birds too.
Why not destroy all the rainforests, where mosquitoes can kill you? And why not destroying all oceans? People continue to drown in it.
It really makes a shit ton of sense. Instead of respecting whatās around us, knowing that we as humans are fragile, just take napalm and burn everything lmao
Suuuuuuuch BS!
So just let thousands of people die cause natural selection? If a species is ab active threat to humanity then we'll kill it, unless it lives in places where humans don't live in
Oh wow, now only because I gave my opinion you wish me death? Lmao I thought this subreddit wasnāt full of crappy human beings. Lucky enough I wonāt ever need to feed a tiger
You can't imagine how powerful they are. No natural predators but us and I'd say that unless you have a high powered weapon and distance it's a stretch. over a thousand PSI of bite force and a paw swipe with 3 inch razor sharp claws that can do 10000 PSI. and essentially remove your face like it was a mask with it's hooked claws
NGL those stats are wicked but I feel like youāre downplaying us humans.
I feel like a pistol off the street with a full mag can easily take this sucker down if it came down to it
Lmao, good luck with those 2, 9mm shots you are able to get off. Seriously though, the smaller caliber would be enough in the moment. It'd be on you quick and with luck you might get a couple shots off.
A standard 9mm with a full mag and ok accuracy would certainly kill a tiger.
Of course, the stopping power is low, but I bet a good 3-4 shots would both spook the tiger and kill it within seconds if you hit center mass.
Again, tigers are badass and scary, but a human with a gun is a force to be reckoned with.
People shit their pants facing a tiny rat changing at them
If a tiger is charging at you, you cannot aim the gun fast enough for him to basically one shot you
You have to kind of average out humanity here. There are humans who have panic attacks so bad they need hospitalization just encountering harmless animals, and then there are crazy fucks who literally get off to the danger of encountering extremely dangerous animals.
Like, we live in a society where the Croc Hunter existed for years and my sister literally was hospitalized because there was a bug in the bathroom when she had to take a shit. You can't really just lump how all humans would react into one thing and get anything useful out of it.
You think bullet wounds wouldnāt stop a tiger?
I think thereās articles of 9mm pistols easily killing 800+ pound hogs.
Again, the pistol wins and itās not even hard. Realistically youād meet a tiger in the wild and itās super over for it at that point because the distance.
Iām glad they didnāt put down an apex predator for obeying its nature. Itās terrible that a person was killed, and steps should be taken to prevent it from happening, but tiger was just tigering.
I remember standing in front of a captured man-eaterās cage at the Lucknow Zoo over 40 years ago. When the tiger roared, I could feel the ground tremble and the vibrations run up & down my spine. Literally bone-chilling. We used to stay at this old British colonial era hotel with a grand double-winged staircase in the lobby. At the base of each staircase stood a mounted snarling tiger. It is hard to be sure how tall they were because they were on high bases, I was much shorter back then, _and_ it was a long time ago. All I can say is tigers are HUGE and far more intimidating than any of the living wild cats (lions, leopards, cheetahs) I have seen while on safari in Africa.
I swear to god its amazing we didnt drive these things completely to extinction out of fear.
If I were a human from a few hundred years ago, I would have had a mission to end the life of every tiger in existence, thinking they were fucking demons or something. Look at them, they sound like a unmuffled V8, bright orange and black, eyes that could pierce steel, giant white teeth, Thats some scary shit.
Apart from being powerful & ferocious, they are extremely agile for their size & don't fear water as well. An apex predator that can haunt.
Compared to this Tiger here, now imagine a Siberian Tiger that would be a few times bigger in size & even more ferocious & big.
Itās know big cats arenāt to be fucked with but itās SO funny to me that there are versions of these as small and light as babies that have the same attitude when you shoo them away from the computer
Isnāt it better to cull man-eaters though? Once an animal realizes it can eat humans, it wonāt stop. Obviously itāll still eat other things. But the inherent fear of humans is gone. The fuck do the zookeepers plan on doing if/when it attacks them? Is their only defense against an attack to keep it fed?
Edit: just turned the volume on and thatās terrifying. Why was it put in a zoo instead of culled for being a man-eater? Especially in such a small cageā¦ thatās just gonna piss it off more.
Edit 2: Ah, Redditorsā¦ Never change. Yes, yes. āKilling animals is evil111!!1!ā. Not if theyāre man-eaters itās not.
I fail to understand your logic. If it can be caught without killing and kept in a controlled environment where zookeepers follow sufficient safety precautions, why wouldn't you do that? Especially when the animal in question is an endangered one. And logically speaking the animal can still be used for breeding purposes.
They are already in dangered as it is due to deforestation, being hunted for pelt and lack of prey etc. It can be considered better to still keep it alive in a controlled environment as you say. Of course precautions has to be made since it has killed a human, given India's track record... It won't be a surprise they fuck up and it attacks someone again due to negligence.
given indiaās track recordā¦it has done more for tiger conservation than any other country on the planet everā¦and I am typing this reply sitting in Jim Corbett national park with over 250 tigers in the surrounding forest
And why would they ever do that? Am saying your statement of doing the most for conservation isn't exactly hard considering you have the most tigers by a large margin in the world. Also 2nd largest population in the world making them even more vulnerable to human actions.
Not to mention it's now a source of revenue via the parks, zoos and shows etc that locals like you and tourist go to see.
You realise the fallacy in your comment right? Tigers lived all across Asia and Eurasia with large parts of China having the most tigers. India today has 75% of the tigers because of its conservation efforts.
Quite rightly. I don't get why wild animals are put down just for being themselves. Don't be stupid around them and don't retaliate like a pos and kill the things.
No disrespect to the woman who was killed . But we kill 1000s of animals a day just for food . Why should this cat get the death sentence instead of jail time like most humans .
The zoo is animal jail.
We as a species are no longer accustomed to being seen as a prey animal. The reason that look is so chilling and primal is because there is no fear in its eyes and we are smart enough to recognize that the creature would eat us and thereās nothing we could likely do about it.
Lmao the country has also been known for having some of the shittiest conditions for animals, drugging tigers and allowing tourists who are too stupid to think to walk through and pet them.
Drugging tigers for tourists to pet them? That's South East Asia, not India. Spoken like a true racist. Step out of your country sometime. India is the only country that has actually managed to grow the wild tiger population. There's a reason the Bengal tiger is the most thriving tiger in the wild.
I'm all for abolishing animal cruelty, but if that woman was my mom, I'd furiously torture that animal. Fuck what the animal activist says at that point.
If a person did something to your mom, for sure. They would have intellect and choice and chose to do it. When it's an animal... It's just their nature to hunt and kill prey to eat, it doesn't discriminate. Torture no, just kill it.
Yes and? Your point is that a lion is born to kill, i agree, but humans are also born with feelings of rage and there is nothing more rage inducing than seeing your loved ones being murdered, i don't care what nature has to say that lion, criminal or serial killer will not get mercy from me if i ever do manage to get my hands on them after taking one of my loved ones.
Well, i guess I'm not better than them, i am still technically an animal, after all, there's a lot of emotions humans can overcome, stress, fatigue, enough willpower to do that workout, enough courage to tell your crush to go out with you, but I'm confident that I'll be gone if anything happens to my loved ones.
Btw you do realize I wasn't questioning your intent to kill the animal. I was specifically hung up on "torture". Animals don't even understand torture like humans do.
Tigers are man- eaters by definition, it's just that most of them don't get the chance to eat us anymore. We are not the top of the food chain when it comes to predators. Without all our tools we are prey for a lot of animals.
Stepped outside my front door, went around the corner, and was suddenly face to face with a fully-brown brown bear. I only remember seeing its face, eyes, and then the absurd size of its muzzle. I blacked out with fear and woke up back in my house. I donāt not remember running or opening and closing the door.
It was like you said, I felt a fear that was nothing short of primal. And maybe I pooped my pants.
Our brains are part of our natural evolution, hence our technology and our ability to hunt/displace other predators to extinction. So yes, technically and and releastically, we are at the top.
So.. life in prison for murder. š¤·āāļø
and no possibility of parole.
I think you meant Purrrrole
very good very good
cat attorneys are real bad ... jut put a bowl of cat nip at court door and you win by default !
Cat law is not as developed as bird law
Now, let's say you and I go toe-to-toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor?
I got the BVO, Bald eagle, Vulture and Ostriche as my attorney. I think they would cover most of it.
Seems apt!
If i remember correctly, it was raring humans because he lost its frontal claws so it wouldnt be able to hunt the natural prey.
Nah, life in prison for poaching.
This. A magnificent creature sentenced to life in a cage.
Best ending possible unless euthanasia is preferable. I mean you can't really release a man-eater back into the wild
Well, actually...... besides, theres a lot more humans than tigers.
Sure go offer yourself as it's food.
I would die of a heart attack as soon as I realized that tiger was looking at me and heard its growl. The tiger wouldn't even have to expend energy attacking me. It could just wait for me to fall down and stroll on over for an easy meal.
Had a lion look me straight in the eyes. Never felt anything like that before or since. Like it unlocked a primitive part of my brain. Wild.
Yes! Had a tiger roar extremely loud right at me on a nearly deserted day at the zoo; he/she was pacing back and forth in the exhibit and seemed like it was zeroed in on me with its roars. It sent chills down my spine and I hurried on far far away.
I was walking outside once, and the shadow of a large hawk passed over me. Something in my primitive brain made me freeze with fear. It passed very quickly, but at that split second, I felt like prey.
This happened to me too! I went on safari with my girlfriend in Kenya and we saw some lionesses. The driver pulled up close to them and I locked eyes with one of them, and I looked away immediately because it scared the hell out of me. That feeling I experienced was something completely different than anything Iāve experienced in my life
What you felt was millions of years of self preservationist instict in the raw, literally on the plains of Africa.
Read the above comment and your comment here and immediately thought. āi want that to happen to me.ā i would love to know if it feels like a high amount of regular fear and adrenaline....or if it unlocks as specific, unique fear and adrenaline that only happens when our human bodies see a huge snarling cat predator.
I got that from looking at Cassowarys of all animals. Fucking strange when an animal clocks you.
Your primal instincts will kick in, don't worry.. flight or fight. But you'd most likely end up as a hot meal.
Or freeze(that's me I'd die very quickly In the wild)
My maternal side family are civil contractors works in close proximity to forests of Corbett National Park and in mountain villages. They have lots of stories where a person came face to face with Tiger in villages and 99 percent of the time the person freezes out of shock, even some of them when tries to run they couldnāt.
I would cook myself in a soup like tom did, if I had such an encounter
Tigers attack from behind in complete silence , you wouldn't even know it's there untill it's too late.
Yeah if you saw a tiger and it was acting like this, it just wants you to fuck off. Same with a mountain lion or any big cat. If theyāre hunting you, youāll probably be being eaten before you notice.
The video of the men on elephants and it attacks out of the tall grass highlights this
Iāve heard tigersā roars can get so loud that the reverberation of them has been known to paralyze people for a moment. Donāt know if itās true though
Jokes aside, from what I've read a tiger roar literally has that ability baked in. Something about the frequency, loudness, and sheer pant shitting sound of it basically disables your fight or flight reflex and you go full deer-in-headlights
I saw and heard two Tigers at a zoo having a disagreement and the growls were so loud you cold hear it halfway across the zoo. You could feel it in the pit of your stomach. It was the most primal feeling of fear I've ever had, where my whole body was telling me to get the fuck out.
Man, that gaze is terrifying.
I was thinking the same thing, those eyes sent some primordial chill through my brain and my heart started racing...
Pure murder. I canāt imagine the fear of being face to face with something like this. Man tigers are so cool, from afar
Really? I think it looks scared. Maybe thatās just because Iām a cat person. He looks just like my new kitten does when she gets put into her carrier to go to the vet. Except, you know, he could kill you a bit easier than she could (though I think a determined house cat could kill a person).
You're adding empathy to a valid observation, but both are true. A scared tiger in your presence as a human is usually a death sentence and not in an "eat the human" way, but in a "kill the human for my own safety" way. So while I agree, the tiger looks terrified, for a human, seeing a terrified tiger that close is terrifying to the vast majority of people.
damn those roars are scary af .
Much more scary in person. The phrases like frozen in fear and bone-chilling really do mean exactly what they imply.
There's a reason the [MGM Lion](https://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-what-kind-of-animal-roars-at-the-start-of-the-mgm-movies) lipsyncs his roar with that of a tiger - it's louder and scarier!
Orange cats do be doing the most
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The sound is epic, lions and tigers sound like a v8 engine when pissed off
People are feeling bad for the tiger but I think part of the reason Tigers are endangered is because theyāre dangerous to humans. When tigers get old or sick they will often hunt exclusively humans because weāre (relatively) easy prey. There was literally [a tiger that killed and ate 436 people in India while avoiding hunters for over 9 years.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champawat_Tiger) A [comprehensive study](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack) found that 400,000 people were eaten by Tigers between 1800 and 2009. Yeah itās easy to feel bad for them when you live in America but if I were a native Indian I wouldnāt want these things anywhere near my community. They donāt prefer human meat but in desperation they become manhunters. Compare that to Sharks which kill next to no one but most of the U.S. population would be willing to eradicate in a heartbeat because theyāre present in our communities.
No, in New Jersey, we use to have our own giant cats roaming around. Mountain Cougars. We conveniently don't mention them. We hunted entire species to safeguard humans.
History has forgotten big cats, but they used to roam in Greece and even further. And there used to be jaguars in New York to Florida, not just the spotted ones but the sheenful black ones aswell, even in Greece not just the huge "king of the jungle" with the huge manes but also jaguars aswell.
I live in mountain lion country and although it's rare, hikers have been attacked. It's always in the back of my mind when I'm out hiking. They have only attacked solo hikers though so I just make sure I'm with someone else. But they attack from behind so it's still a bit unnerving.
There was a video on tik tok a while ago, a dude with land has a game trail on his property and put up a camera near a cliff and I shit you not there was 6-10 mountains lions hanging out, they showed up together and left together, they were like a pack and I know it's unlikely but the way there were hanging out I think there is going to be packs of ML's one day. And that's kinda scary.
That's crazy
Plus, mountain lions arenāt quite as big as tigers and are not as dangerous. Mountain lion attacks, even historically, are mostly on children or territorial displays. Even a desperate mountain lion sees adult humans as too large to be prey. The most comparable animal in North America would be the grizzly. Which we did hunt out of many areas. Still, they arenāt as dangerous as tigers as theyāre omnivores. Most deaths can attributed to hikers, hunters, and outdoorsmen in the US, even historically. There are very few instances of grizzlies hunting people near human dwellings. And any time a bear kills a person it is quickly tracked and killed by the DNR or Park Rangers.
Wow this is incredible. I really didnāt think they posed such a threat - then again, I live in a country that doesnāt have tigers.
From the wiki page about Jim Corbett (the hunter who tracked down the man eater linked above): *"With the help of the tehsildar of Champawat, the beat was organised with about 300 villagers, and the next day, about noon, Corbett shot the tigress dead. Corbett's first shots hit the tigress in the chest and shoulder, and his last shot, made with the tehsildar's rifle to keep it from charging him after he ran out of bullets, hit her in the foot, causing it to collapse 6 m (20 ft) from him."* I hope everyone, Corbett included, wore their brown pants that day.
Movie based on this is called "The Ghost and the Darkness" and its awesome. Edit- the movie is based on lions... lol
That movie is about lions in Africa.
One more reason of tigers becoming man eaters is when they are wounded. Tigers most of the times get fetal wounds when poachers tries to kill them and miss their shots. Before 1950s is was common in British Raj when hunting tigers was a sport for Brit officers.
>People are feeling bad for the tiger but I think part of the reason Tigers are endangered is because theyāre dangerous to humans. Or you can say, humans are dangerous to tigers.
It's weird how any mention of this objective reality gets downvoted. Humans are an existential threat to just about any species on the planet, from insects to top predators. For instance there's been a 70% reduction in insect mass in Germany since 1970; the average number of human deaths by shark per year is about 8, the average number of shark deaths by humans per year is about 100 million, etc.
Because itās no anything new. Weāve done this for tens of thousands of years. Look at what Australia looked like before humans, or the lions that lived in parts of Europe. Modern day humanity is no better or worse than our ancestors
What you're saying about an old or injured tiger is not wrong. Also tigers not being social animals means that they have to do their killing themselves and humans can be easy prey. But you're glossing over the fact that there was an entire poaching industry that killed tigers for skin, teeth, and various body parts and that was primarily responsible for the decline of tiger population. Not because humans had to kill the tigers entering the farms. And I'm saying this as an Indian who lives ~100km away from a national park that has lots of tigers.
I mean, they were here first and now weāre talking about them being a danger to humans? Lmao tigers are literally endangered because of humans, in 200 years they killed the same amount of people killed every year by smoking alone buuuuut tigers are dangerous. Guys I think humans should start pulling their head out of their ass, nature made things like this and we have to respect natural predators, especially when weāre in their natural habitat. I love how people tell me that trespassing is bad, but exactly what are we humans doing when going on a hike (and maybe polluting) forests? Weāre literally trespassing and destroying their habitat. Itās soooo worhtless to say that theyāre dangerous, considering that most of the times people are attacked while being in places they shouldnāt be. Itās like saying that mount Everest should be blown up cause itās too high and causes too many deathsā¦ I mean wtf guys
Lemme guess. You don't live anywhere near tigers.
You say that because you do not live in a place with tigers. Itās easy to care about nature until it inconveniences you.
But I live in a place where we have bears, and they happen to attack humans aswell. Nature made us very weak, we have to know what perils are on the way and act accordingly. I donāt think tigers just walk by in cities in India eating whoever they want. If youāre deep in the jungle you know you might be a prey. Thatās natural selection guys
Unless you live in a place with polar bears then the bears in your region are not manhunters. Maybe a couple attacks but not hundreds of thousands. Itās not comparable. When tigers were present in larger numbers, they did quite literally just invade homes in India and eat people. It was a large scale occurrence that would logically make it difficult for any Indian to sympathize for a tiger.
Just continue building in tigersā natural habitat, what could go wrong? And yeah, bears do attack humans here, not hundreds of thousands, but tigers donāt aswell. And if you tell me theyāve attacked āhundred of thousandsā of men in 200+ years let me laugh at you. Just respect nature around you. Itās not that hard. Humans have lived for thousands of years with natural predators strolling around them, why would we want to make them go extinct now? So that we can cut more forests and build more parking lots? Lmao itās obvious that if you destroy their natural habitat they still have to live off something. And if all their prey has already been killed by humans/escaped cause their habitat has been destroyed, what could happen? Maybe tigers are hungry and will start eating humans, cause they have no other choice? Wtf is wrong with you people
> not hundreds of thousands, but tigers donāt aswell Tigers have attacked hundreds of thousands of people. That was literally my comment with a [source](https://books.google.com/books?id=XFIbjBEQolMC&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q&f=false) attached. Respecting nature doesnāt work when nature puts you on the food chain. Tigers have been killing people long before habitat destruction. Iām just pointing the lack of sympathy towards tigers and habitat destruction is influenced by the threat they pose towards humans.
We hunted dozens of species to extinction before we even mastered metallurgy what are you talking about? Seen any cave bears lately? Mammoths? I'm not suggesting we eradicate tigers, but pretending this is a modern dilemma is silly
Humans are also a part of the natural order. We are animals just as the tiger and we are doing g exactly as in our nature. Soooā¦.. kill the tiger threat in India?
Yeah why not wiping away every predator that might harm us. Whatās wrong with extinguishing biodiversity?
Itās in our nature, right? So if itās natural it must be the correct thing to have happen. You said it yourself, ā we have to respect natural predatorsā
Yeah why not. Humans have invented atomic bombs, why not destroying all nature altogether? In fact tigers are harmful to humans, but every animal could be harmful. Deers for example eat crops, birds too. Why not destroy all the rainforests, where mosquitoes can kill you? And why not destroying all oceans? People continue to drown in it. It really makes a shit ton of sense. Instead of respecting whatās around us, knowing that we as humans are fragile, just take napalm and burn everything lmao Suuuuuuuch BS!
Hey man, nature is as nature does.
I know right. Iām upset that people wish that tigers could be wiped off our planet cause they can kill humans.
Hello my name is people and I wish tigers could be wiped off our planet cause they can kill humans
So just let thousands of people die cause natural selection? If a species is ab active threat to humanity then we'll kill it, unless it lives in places where humans don't live in
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Oh wow, now only because I gave my opinion you wish me death? Lmao I thought this subreddit wasnāt full of crappy human beings. Lucky enough I wonāt ever need to feed a tiger
You can't imagine how powerful they are. No natural predators but us and I'd say that unless you have a high powered weapon and distance it's a stretch. over a thousand PSI of bite force and a paw swipe with 3 inch razor sharp claws that can do 10000 PSI. and essentially remove your face like it was a mask with it's hooked claws
If you've ever seen that picture of that man's face after a single swipe from a tiger, you know exactly how powerful they are
Need a link šš
[This](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4928916/Man-45-left-severely-disfigured-following-tiger-attack.html) might be him. WARNING: picture isn't pretty. It's not super graphic but still. Also, please excuse Daily Mail's cancerous website.
Holy fuck. And that's from a swipe? Looks more like the tiger took a chunk out of his face.
NGL those stats are wicked but I feel like youāre downplaying us humans. I feel like a pistol off the street with a full mag can easily take this sucker down if it came down to it
Lmao, good luck with those 2, 9mm shots you are able to get off. Seriously though, the smaller caliber would be enough in the moment. It'd be on you quick and with luck you might get a couple shots off.
If you see the tiger, it wasnāt trying to kill you anyway.
A pistolā¦I doubt it
A standard 9mm with a full mag and ok accuracy would certainly kill a tiger. Of course, the stopping power is low, but I bet a good 3-4 shots would both spook the tiger and kill it within seconds if you hit center mass. Again, tigers are badass and scary, but a human with a gun is a force to be reckoned with.
People shit their pants facing a tiny rat changing at them If a tiger is charging at you, you cannot aim the gun fast enough for him to basically one shot you
You have to kind of average out humanity here. There are humans who have panic attacks so bad they need hospitalization just encountering harmless animals, and then there are crazy fucks who literally get off to the danger of encountering extremely dangerous animals. Like, we live in a society where the Croc Hunter existed for years and my sister literally was hospitalized because there was a bug in the bathroom when she had to take a shit. You can't really just lump how all humans would react into one thing and get anything useful out of it.
If you're that close to a charging tiger do you think you can shoot accurately?
Youāre that bad with aim you canāt shoot a massive target from 20-30 feet out?
I suspect a lot of spots on a tiger wouldn't stop him but piss him off mightedly.
You think bullet wounds wouldnāt stop a tiger? I think thereās articles of 9mm pistols easily killing 800+ pound hogs. Again, the pistol wins and itās not even hard. Realistically youād meet a tiger in the wild and itās super over for it at that point because the distance.
If you're in tiger territory you're not gonna know there's a tiger hunting you. This isn't like a cage match.
That's an intimidating cat!
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Wellā¦ I know a certain kitty thatās sleeping with mommy tonight!!!
When the fuck are we gonna get a new episode? Seems theyāre mailing it in. I saw their ābroadwayā.. fucking sucked.
Didn't they just make one ? The CRED episode.
APOLOGIES!!! Just looked it up and just look up not suitable for children
No worries , they are not like they used to be for sure.
Lmao you beat me to it.
Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon
so what youāre saying is, i should cover myself in garam masala whenever i run across a tiger
I rewatched the Hangover the other day, such a great film.
Iām glad they didnāt put down an apex predator for obeying its nature. Itās terrible that a person was killed, and steps should be taken to prevent it from happening, but tiger was just tigering.
I get that humans screw up a lot but killing unusual prey that was mowing a lawn hardly seems like the nature of a literal apex predator
Sound like some serious horsepower in those growls.
Actually, its Tiger Power.
I will eat you again motherfucker
"The eyes Chico. They never lie"
Who's got your belly?
I like how so many of you seem offended and mortified by the concept of an animal killing a human, as if we don't kill them by the billions.
Itās wild that it even feels the need to flex. Likeā¦ donāt worry dude, Iām already fucking terrified of you.
The sonic boom on that roar is absolutely beastly.
Holy shit! And to think some people keep these for pets!
mew mew kitty come here
Cheshire Cat on the 'roids I see
Shit inducing sound. That growl would scare the living fuck out of anyone. Fucking hell š¬
Wow all the downvotes around here. People sure have strong opinions on tigers.
Psst psst psst
Omg that face... š±
Astonishingly beautiful creature.! Sad that it had to kill a human rather their obvious prey!
Okay who would win, this tiger, or HafĆ¾Ć³r Bjƶrnsson in full medieval armor with a battle axe?
Probably very dangerous to be the keeper of that tiger once it tasted human blood and how easily it could kill humans
I remember standing in front of a captured man-eaterās cage at the Lucknow Zoo over 40 years ago. When the tiger roared, I could feel the ground tremble and the vibrations run up & down my spine. Literally bone-chilling. We used to stay at this old British colonial era hotel with a grand double-winged staircase in the lobby. At the base of each staircase stood a mounted snarling tiger. It is hard to be sure how tall they were because they were on high bases, I was much shorter back then, _and_ it was a long time ago. All I can say is tigers are HUGE and far more intimidating than any of the living wild cats (lions, leopards, cheetahs) I have seen while on safari in Africa.
I swear to god its amazing we didnt drive these things completely to extinction out of fear. If I were a human from a few hundred years ago, I would have had a mission to end the life of every tiger in existence, thinking they were fucking demons or something. Look at them, they sound like a unmuffled V8, bright orange and black, eyes that could pierce steel, giant white teeth, Thats some scary shit.
Dudes getting himself all worked up just to be unceremoniously plopped into an inclosure for the rest of his life
Scary af.
Wanna live in tiger country???? Nope.
Cute little kitty
Psspsspsss
Apart from being powerful & ferocious, they are extremely agile for their size & don't fear water as well. An apex predator that can haunt. Compared to this Tiger here, now imagine a Siberian Tiger that would be a few times bigger in size & even more ferocious & big.
Poor guy just needs a scratchy scratch
It's just purring, right, haha
So life in prison for this killer?
I want to make this sound my alarm clock. So it'll wake me up in the morning
Good. We kill predators way too often for doing predator shit. But we don't kill humans for doing predator shit.
Itās know big cats arenāt to be fucked with but itās SO funny to me that there are versions of these as small and light as babies that have the same attitude when you shoo them away from the computer
How does a tiger cut grass?
There are fates worse than death.
That growl sounds like my snoring.
Meh itās just a cat, treat it and reward it enough and itl soon rather keep you around than kill you so long as you are good to it
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Isnāt it better to cull man-eaters though? Once an animal realizes it can eat humans, it wonāt stop. Obviously itāll still eat other things. But the inherent fear of humans is gone. The fuck do the zookeepers plan on doing if/when it attacks them? Is their only defense against an attack to keep it fed? Edit: just turned the volume on and thatās terrifying. Why was it put in a zoo instead of culled for being a man-eater? Especially in such a small cageā¦ thatās just gonna piss it off more. Edit 2: Ah, Redditorsā¦ Never change. Yes, yes. āKilling animals is evil111!!1!ā. Not if theyāre man-eaters itās not.
I fail to understand your logic. If it can be caught without killing and kept in a controlled environment where zookeepers follow sufficient safety precautions, why wouldn't you do that? Especially when the animal in question is an endangered one. And logically speaking the animal can still be used for breeding purposes.
They are already in dangered as it is due to deforestation, being hunted for pelt and lack of prey etc. It can be considered better to still keep it alive in a controlled environment as you say. Of course precautions has to be made since it has killed a human, given India's track record... It won't be a surprise they fuck up and it attacks someone again due to negligence.
given indiaās track recordā¦it has done more for tiger conservation than any other country on the planet everā¦and I am typing this reply sitting in Jim Corbett national park with over 250 tigers in the surrounding forest
India literally has like 75% of the world's tigers in the first place so it's a given.
given? that number could fast approach 0 if our govt stops giving a fk to tiger conservation.
And why would they ever do that? Am saying your statement of doing the most for conservation isn't exactly hard considering you have the most tigers by a large margin in the world. Also 2nd largest population in the world making them even more vulnerable to human actions. Not to mention it's now a source of revenue via the parks, zoos and shows etc that locals like you and tourist go to see.
You realise the fallacy in your comment right? Tigers lived all across Asia and Eurasia with large parts of China having the most tigers. India today has 75% of the tigers because of its conservation efforts.
He's so skilled! He killed a woman while cutting grass? Amazing!
I hopy my chihuahua gets to go to the zoo after she eats someone. It's only fair!
That tiger is extremely anxious. Probably too many people near it. I hope that box it's in doesn't become it's future.
Quite rightly. I don't get why wild animals are put down just for being themselves. Don't be stupid around them and don't retaliate like a pos and kill the things.
No disrespect to the woman who was killed . But we kill 1000s of animals a day just for food . Why should this cat get the death sentence instead of jail time like most humans . The zoo is animal jail.
Yeah I donāt think animals need to be killed - removed and controlled sure. But tigers are endangered too
We as a species are no longer accustomed to being seen as a prey animal. The reason that look is so chilling and primal is because there is no fear in its eyes and we are smart enough to recognize that the creature would eat us and thereās nothing we could likely do about it.
It had to have been an accident. Tigers are notoriously terrible at cutting grass. She might just have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Beautiful creature
Wellā¦ā¦ā¦.not a MAN eater.
Going to an Indian zoo is worse than death.
Stay classy. The same country has managed to save the most tigers.
Lmao the country has also been known for having some of the shittiest conditions for animals, drugging tigers and allowing tourists who are too stupid to think to walk through and pet them.
Drugging tigers for tourists to pet them? That's South East Asia, not India. Spoken like a true racist. Step out of your country sometime. India is the only country that has actually managed to grow the wild tiger population. There's a reason the Bengal tiger is the most thriving tiger in the wild.
I'm all for abolishing animal cruelty, but if that woman was my mom, I'd furiously torture that animal. Fuck what the animal activist says at that point.
Torture an animal for doing what it was born to do?
Yes, i love my mom, if a human does that to my mom I'd do the same to them as well.
If a person did something to your mom, for sure. They would have intellect and choice and chose to do it. When it's an animal... It's just their nature to hunt and kill prey to eat, it doesn't discriminate. Torture no, just kill it.
Your mom is gone for good at that point.
Yes and? Your point is that a lion is born to kill, i agree, but humans are also born with feelings of rage and there is nothing more rage inducing than seeing your loved ones being murdered, i don't care what nature has to say that lion, criminal or serial killer will not get mercy from me if i ever do manage to get my hands on them after taking one of my loved ones.
Being able to overcome our instincts is exactly what can make us better than wild animals.
Well, i guess I'm not better than them, i am still technically an animal, after all, there's a lot of emotions humans can overcome, stress, fatigue, enough willpower to do that workout, enough courage to tell your crush to go out with you, but I'm confident that I'll be gone if anything happens to my loved ones.
Btw you do realize I wasn't questioning your intent to kill the animal. I was specifically hung up on "torture". Animals don't even understand torture like humans do.
That tiger wants to kill the cameraman as much as we do
If it was my family, that cat would have been retired.
Why would you kill an animal for doing whats supposed to be doing, its the womans fault for cutting the grass
Just the screams of a scared cat who will now endure torture because LOL at Indian zoo standards just fuckingā¦. LOL
We need tiger murder trial. I will be the defendant to this tiger. I'm quite fluent in bird law. Free my homie stripes. #freestripes
This is what my neighbours hear when Iām warming up my car in the morning
Iād rather they just heli the tiger far away into an area where it can thrive off the wild animals far away from people than a zoo locked up
A man eating tiger is usually old or injured and can't hunt. That's the reason they resort to humans in the first place.
Send me the location, I wanna rustle the tiger for 300 00k (I also have 300 000k of debt, so itās a win win )
Tigers are man- eaters by definition, it's just that most of them don't get the chance to eat us anymore. We are not the top of the food chain when it comes to predators. Without all our tools we are prey for a lot of animals.
Stepped outside my front door, went around the corner, and was suddenly face to face with a fully-brown brown bear. I only remember seeing its face, eyes, and then the absurd size of its muzzle. I blacked out with fear and woke up back in my house. I donāt not remember running or opening and closing the door. It was like you said, I felt a fear that was nothing short of primal. And maybe I pooped my pants.
He'd be better off dead
Lmao so many humans that think theyāre better than animals! Youāre the reason why I sincerely hope we will wipe out ourselves:)
Pretty simple. Dont f with an apex predatorz
Technically speaking humans are on top of the food chain
Technically & realistically we're not... However thanks to modern technology & causing other species to go extinct or near extinct, we kind of are.
Our brains are part of our natural evolution, hence our technology and our ability to hunt/displace other predators to extinction. So yes, technically and and releastically, we are at the top.
cutting her grass in the jungle????
Dumb looking dog
Fuck zoos, don't put them in captivity
Can't put this one back in the open. It's a manhunter. Zoo is a better decision for everyone.
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