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ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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(01-01-2018, 12:52 PM)Betty Wrote: Unique fatality due to claw injuries in a tiger attack: a case report.

This paper describes a unique case of a fatal tiger attack in the wild. In the present case, a tiger fatally mauled a 34-year-old female with its claws, instead of the usual mechanism of killing by the bite injury to the neck. The autopsy revealed multiple fatal and non-fatal injuries caused by the tiger claws. The characteristic injuries due to the tooth impacts were absent as the teeth of the offending tiger were either fallen or non-functional. To the best of our knowledge, probably this rare case would be the first reported human fatality due to the tiger claw injuries in the world. The purpose of the present article is to highlight the fatal injuries due to the tiger claws, as the claw-induced fatal injuries in a tiger attack are not reported in the medico-legal literature. Moreover, this report would be an illustrative one for differentiation between the fatal injuries due to the claws and tooth impacts in a tiger attack. Furthermore, the present report establishes the importance of the tiger claws as a source of fatal injuries in a tiger attack.


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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25082732

What stuck was the remark on uniqueness:  

" ... To the best of our knowledge, probably this rare case would be the first reported human fatality due to the tiger claw injuries in the world ... " (from the abstract). 

The paper published in Pub Med in November 2014 could be the first of its kind published in a specific magazine, but it wasn't the first time a human was killed by a wild tiger unable to use its teeth.

Here's the first paragraphs of Kenneth Anderson's story 'From mauler to man-eater':

" ... This story is the sequel to two episodes I have recorded in the earlier books of adventures. The first of these began when a tiger began to behave very strangely by mauling the graziers of the hamlet of Rajnagara, at the foot of the Dimbum escarpment in North Coimbatore district in what is now known as Madras State. The unique feature was that this tiger never bit any of its human victims nor was there any authentic proof that it had killed or eaten anybody. It merely rushed at its victim and, when close enough, raised itself on its hind legs and severely mauled him with the claws of its forefeet in the region of the head, chest, back and arms. I attempted to bag this elusive animal, but failed completely.

Then the scene changed to a very much wider area of operations, varying from sixty to one hundred miles north and northeast of Rajnagara. A tiger killed and carried off a boy at another little Hamlet in the jungle, called Pegepalyam.

That boy was the first of several victims, some of whose remains were recovered. The bodies bore unmistakable evidence of having been severely mauled by the claws of the tiger which had attacked them, while teeth marks, other than where the flesh had been eaten, were conspicuously absent. In one case, two men who had climbed up a tree saw their companion actually being mauled by this tiger, which attacked him on two separate occasions, clawing him across the face the first time, and killing him with a blow of its paw the second time, before it carried him off.

The human remains that had been found indicated that there was apparently nothing wrong with the animal's teeth or jaws, as had first been conjectured. For he had eaten a good meal from each, which would hardly have been possible with impaired teeth or a broken or otherwise maimed jaw.

His constant mode of assault, however, which was by clawing and striking with its forepaws and not by biting, appeared to indicate beyond doubt that this animal was none other than the earlier 'Mauler of Rajnagara' that had strayed northward into an area of jungle far larger than his original habitat ... " ('The Kenneth Anderson Omnibus, Volume 1, Thirteenth impression, 2012, Rupa  Publications India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, pp. 693-694).

There was another tiger in southern India that killed humans with his forefeet and claws. This tiger used his claws to scape the flesh of its victims. Anderson was able to kill this man-eater. It was a large male that had been badly wounded by a hunter. I'll try to find the story.

Here's a scan of the cover of 'The Kenneth Anderson Omnibus':


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