Unfortunately not true.....read the chapter on the Bachelor of Powlgarh from "Maneater of Kumaon"....Corbett freely admits to hunting this one purely for the sport and becuase it was a magnificent specimen highly sought after by visiting hunters....regardless we shouldnt judge a man like Corbett using today's values......he lived in the first half of the 20th century and values and beliefs were very different to now......he had a genuine love and admiration for the animals he hunted and even talks in depth about how his greatest challenge was his "hunt" to put tigers in the wild on movie film for the first time ever......a gentleman who lived a life to be envied i believe.......