Semisane

I just finished reading Man-Eaters of Kumaon by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett. It details Corbett's experiences in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900 to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating tigers and leopards. One tiger, for example, was responsible for over 400 human deaths.

This guy's tracking skills were nothing short of amazing, sometimes tracking a tiger for many days. He could tell a tiger's age, sex, and size by it's pug marks. Many tigers turned man eater because of injury by gunfire or porcupines. On several occasions he predicted where on it's body a tiger was injured based on it's track.


See the reviews on Amazon, here:
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Eaters-Ku...ters+of+kumaon

mackesr

I have been meaning to buy a copy of that book myself. I was reading an article a few months ago about the rifle Rigby presented to Jim Corbett for killing that tiger. Sounds like a very interesting read and thanks for sharing.

bronko22000

Sounds like an interesting book but I'm not that much of a reading type guy. I can page through a magazine and read some articles that catch my eye.
However, with that being said, I personally have come across several of those man eaters in my younger days when I did some carousing in bars! You had to be really careful as some of those habitats were pretty dangerous. But I was getting pretty good at guessing their age, sex (very important) and size also.

Semisane

Bronko, those cougars are a lot easier to bag than tigers.

bronko22000

And believe me when I tell you that some of them really needed bags!!!!!!!!!!!!