
Man-eating Bengal Tigers
For millennia, healthy Bengal Tigers have hunted humans in this area; possibly no other predator of any kind hunts humans as ferociously. And the underlying cause is yet unknown. Some studies blame the saltiness of the water, others the prevalence of harmless humans (fishermen and honey-collectors) in the tiger’s natural habitat, while still others attribute the tiger’s fondness for human flesh to the difficulties in getting its typical food in its hostile terrain.