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The Sundarban Tiger
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 (08-14-2017, 09:58 AM)Wolverine Wrote: It's quite possible that some of this beautiful specimens are man-eaters ... Maybe a few of them have/will have taken a man or two at some point of their lives... doesn't make them man-eaters. A man-eater doesn't behave like THIS infront of a safari-boat, full of people, stuck in mud at low tide. That's something normal paparazzi-accustomed ones like, say Umarpani, would do...  *This image is copyright of its original author (Please read my post #81 here, for more on the so called "man-eaters" take/took people within the forest). After the critical tiger habitat was designated as Tiger Reserve in 1973, the core area with the highest tiger density (& attacks), was declared out of bounds. As far as "professional" man-eaters are concerned, the ones actively raid human habitations, were few & behaved similarly to the rest of the world's. Some used to swim to the villages. They either returned to the forests themselves or were tranquilised, caged, treated & released deeper inside the forest. I quote thd Field Director of Sundarban Tiger Reserve: Quote:“Ageing, injured, incapacitated tigers, young pregnant tigresses and young tigers which fail turf war for control over habitat come to prey on human-inhabited deltas & swim the surrounding rivers to enter 25 border villages. During breeding season, tigers come to the islands to litter cubs in safe paddy fields and bushes near the villages.” Advantage with the Sundarban is that it has no habitations inside it. Today, the whole 65+km long forest-village interface have been net fenced. This how the forest looks from the villages...  *This image is copyright of its original author ..& they work fine(except in few cases of wide rivers & cyclone damages).  *This image is copyright of its original author
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