Lions typically become man-eaters for the same reasons as tigers: starvation, old age and illness, though as with tigers, some man-eaters were reportedly in perfect health. This greater assertiveness usually makes man-eating lions easier to dispatch than tigers. Man-eating lions have been recorded to actively enter human villages at night as well as during the day to acquire prey. The Tsavo maneaters on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Other theories include the sharing of their habitat with humans and the consumption of human corpses during floods. Ī theory promoted to explain this suggests that since tigers drink fresh water, the salinity of the area waters serve as a destabilizing factor in the diet and life of tigers of Sundarbans, keeping them in constant discomfort and making them extremely aggressive. In 2008, a loss of habitat due to the Cyclone Sidr led to an increase in the number of attacks on humans in the Indian side of the Sundarbans, as tigers were crossing over to the Indian side from Bangladesh. The Sundarbans is home to approximately 600 royal Bengal tigers who before modern times used to "regularly kill fifty or sixty people a year". Additionally, tiger attacks mostly occur during daylight hours, unlike those involving leopards and lions. The majority of victims were reportedly in the tiger's territory when the attack took place. Unlike leopards and lions, man-eating tigers rarely enter human habitations in order to acquire prey. Tigers killed 129 people in the Sundarbans mangrove forest from 1969 to 1971. About 1,000 people were reportedly killed each year in India during the early 1900s, with one individual Bengal tigress killing 436 people in India. Tigers are recorded to have killed more people than any other big cat, and have been responsible for more human deaths through direct attack than any other wild mammal. However, they are not the only predators that will attack humans if given the chance a wide variety of species have also been known to adopt humans as usual prey, including various bears, Komodo dragons, spotted and striped hyenas. Most reported cases of man-eaters have involved lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, and large crocodilians. Īlthough humans can be attacked by many kinds of non-human animals, man-eaters are those that have incorporated human flesh into their usual diet and actively hunt and kill humans. However, all three cases (especially the last two) may habituate an animal to eating human flesh or to attacking humans, and may foster the development of man-eating behavior. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opportunity or desperate hunger, or the incidental eating of a human that the animal has killed in self-defense. ( April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī man-eater is an animal that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable.
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