Talk:Tiger attack/Archive 1

Removed Bachelor of Powalgarth picture from Champawat tigress section
The picture of the giant male tiger called the Bachelor of Powalgarth is often mistaken for the Champawat tigress but this is incorrect. The Bachelor was not even a man-eater but simply a very large male and one of the very few tigers that Corbett shot "for sports." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.57.134.34 (talk) 01:22, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Cleanup tag
Generally poor quality writing throughout the article, particularly the introductory paragraph. Reads a bit like stream of consciousness writing from a young child. Suggest that entire article be rewritten to a higher standard of writing. Also the last paragraph with suggestions on why tiger attacks occur is uncited, despite being desperately in need of some decent citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.0.98.225 (talk) 02:19, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I wasn't one of the original authors of this, but I've done some rewriting to try to address your concerns. Feel free to do more if you're not satisfied, though. Please refrain in the future from insulting the work of other contributors; much better to pitch in and fix it. Cheers and happy editing, Khazar (talk) 21:57, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

In myth?
Should we mention the manticore, a legendary creature whose name literally means "man-eater" in Persian, and which is believed to have been based on the tiger?--Pharos (talk) 19:40, 22 December 2007 (UTC) g — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.188.105.177 (talk) 19:41, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

man eaters are injured or old?
My understanding is that this is a myth, that the long history of tiger predation on human population indicates sufficient frequency of attack to preclude the assumption that man-eaters are generally old or injured. Studies of man-eating lions are another matter. Some believe that it is hunting pressure that has decimated tiger populations that targetted humans and so most areas have only tigers who were "selected" for their avoidance of humans. In previous centuries it has been documented that tigers have killed hundreds of thousands of people during a human lifespan in India, suggesting that predation on humans, at least in the Indian context, was part of the tigers normal behavior. That we see contemporary examples of injured tigers hunting human does not mean that humans are atypical prey for tigers per se, just that human prey is atypical within what is left of otherwise savagely hunted populations of tigers that have survived by avoidance. It also bears mentioning that that decline in tiger attacks in the Sunderbans has been the result of shutting access to the core of the tiger reserve, not from any change of diet on the part of the tigers themselves. This closure itself is predicated on the understanding that it is too dangerous for people to occupy the core area and so speaks volume for the ongoing nature of tiger predation, particularly of this population remnant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.82.94.127 (talk) 05:52, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Tigress-Jowlagiri.jpg
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Indian only?
Why does this article include only information on Indian tigers? There are tigers in other places, so shouldn't there be other statistics? If this article is going to limit itself to Indian tigers, there ought to be some modifier in the title? Ed8r (talk) 00:34, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Image of the man eater
The image on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack supposedly showing Jim Corbett with the Man-Eater of Champawat is identical to the image on Corbett's own wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Corbett_(hunter) showing him supposedly with the Bachelor of Powalgarh. Clearly one of the two is incorrectly attributed.. I can recognise Corbett but the difference between two dead tigers is beyond me. Maybe someone who has his illustrated books can correct this. Coleopterist (talk) 17:03, 4 September 2012 (UTC)