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02-21-2017, 09:05 AM( This post was last modified: 02-21-2017, 07:38 PM by Rishi )
(02-16-2017, 08:15 AM)Ba Ba Lou Wrote: Sundarbans tigers, most likely the most dangerous species of Bengal tigers known to man.
Probably not..They used to do a lot of man-eating, because of the presence of large number of men inside the forest at very high density...unlike any other place in the world!!! Just like at the fringe forests, where tigers' diet consists of 70% cattle, because of their AVAILABILITY.
Today people need special permits issued by Forest dept. & have to wait for their turn to prevent overharvesting of Sundarbans & that killings have fallen to 2-4 a year now-a-days...& falling. (Used to be 100 sometimes)....I can present statistics, but they are written in Bengali.
Tigers elsewhere can identify humans as foreign elements, they have seen the villages & religiously avoid them. The ones who haven't, are so because they live deeper in the forests & have little contact with mankind.
But here, they are used to seeing hundreds of fishermen, woodcutters, honeycollectors roaming arround in the forest at any point of time, miles away from the last settlement at the forest fringes, which he doesn't know exist (there are none inside sundarbans)..just like any deer or boar, its natural preys, do & SEE NO REASON TO DIFFERENTIATE US FROM THEM.