It's interesting to see how many Americans, often the same ones moan and grow endlessy about wolves. But love lions and complain about Africans poaching, killing, poisoning lions.

Tigers? When I was in India, at Bandavagarh Park, I think it was, a herd boy following up a lost cow chanced upon it and the tiger that had killed it. The tiger killed the boy.

While population encroachment, deforestation, reduced tiger numbers the most, a###holes thinking shooting ninety tigers in a single day by a single Maharajah was laudable certainly contributed to its population decline.

Some of you guys really need to actually read Corbett. He describes the tiger as the Gentleman of the Jungle. As a child wandered the jungle, and tigers ignored him. That tigers generally don't hunt and kill humans. If protecting cubs, most mothers are dangerous. Defending a kill is common for many predators. But Corbett describes why Maneaters usually occur. Age, damaged or worn teeth, injuries wounds. Making it hard for the tiger to hunt and kill it's usual prey.