Edward James Corbett was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 mem
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The Western Front in 1918; in January, Corbett was posted near Peronne (in the shaded area), which would be overrun in March by the German spring offensive.
Corbett crouching over the Leopard of Rudraprayag
Corbett with the slain Bachelor of Powalgarh, 1930
A man-eating animal or man-eater is an individual animal or being that preys on humans as a pattern of hunting behavior. This does not include the scavenging of corpses, a single attack born of opport
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…Edward James Corbett (25 July 1875 – 19 April 1955) was an Anglo-Indian hunter and author. He gained fame through hunting and killing several man-eating tigers and leopards in Northern India, as detailed in his bestselling 1944 memoir Man-Eaters of Kumaon. In his later years, he became an outspoken advocate of the nascent…
The man-eater of Segur, a young man-eating male Bengal tiger who killed 5 people in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state in South India.
The Tsavo maneaters on display in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Two of the Wolves of Périgord, a pack allegedly responsible for the deaths of 18 people in February 1766, on display at the chateau of Razac in Thiviers[citation needed]
The Nile crocodile is one of the species involved in the most unprovoked fatal attacks on humans.