What Is a Man Eating Tiger?

Tiger attacks are an extreme form of human–wildlife conflict which occur for various reasons and have claimed more human lives than attacks by any of the other big cats.

Are tigers of Sundarbans man eaters?

Sundarban tigers are a little smaller and slimmer than that found elsewhere in India; but remain extremely powerful. No one knows why tigers of Sundarbans are man eaters, aggressive towards humans; but scientists, biologists, and others have speculated a number of reasons of why these tigers are man-eaters.

Could a tiger eat a human?

Bengal tigers do not under normal circumstances kill or eat humans. They are by nature semi-nocturnal, deep-forest predators with a seemingly ingrained fear of all things bipedal; they are animals that will generally change direction at the first sign of a human rather than seek an aggressive confrontation.