Champawat devil who killed more than 400 people (8 photos)

Cats are perhaps the most graceful and graceful representatives of the wild. But you must always remember that in soft paws claws are hidden, and fangs are in the mouth.





This tigress, a female Bengal tiger, lived on the border India and Nepal at the beginning of the last century. And got into the book of records Guinness as the most bloodthirsty beast.



Bengal tiger

In total, the Champawat tigress dealt with 436 unhappy. This is only the number of recorded cases, and in In fact, there could have been more.

What caused the fury of the beast? No one knew. But the predator began to regularly leave the jungle, attacking everyone who passed by and killed. The count went to tens. When the number of victims exceeded two hundred, the authorities sent almost a whole an army of hunters and soldiers. Champawat monster could not be killed, but the predator was driven out to the territory of India. And she continued her bloody hunt.

New victims



The death toll in India was on the rise. Just Predator roamed the neighborhood and attacked anyone who was in the zone visibility. Attacks began to be recorded even during the day. Life in the region froze. People also froze in their huts, barely hearing the tiger's roar. It meant that death was near.

Deliverance



Finally, in 1907, a daredevil was found who agreed to save county from the beast. They became the English hunter Jim Corbett. Man traced the bloody path of the animal from the place where the tigress dealt with 16-year-old girl (in the vicinity of the city of Champawat). But the hunter himself did not become another victim, falling into an ambush of a predator. Saved from death only an instant reaction - the animal was scared away by shots.



Corbett with a dead tigress

The next day he tried again. But this time the hunter was accompanied by a large detachment of locals. This time, Corbett tracked down and shot the animal, hitting the chest. The tigress mustered her last strength and jumped, and literally in the jump, Jim shot her paw. After examining your trophy, Corbett discovered that the predator's right fangs were broken - and top and bottom. And with such a defect, she could not hunt full-fledged prey, and she had to switch to more defenseless and weak people.

glory of the hunter



Leopard from Rudraprayag

During his career, from 1907 to 1938, Jim tracked down and destroyed 19 tigers and 14 leopards that killed people. In general the complexity of these animals tore apart and ate about 1200 people.

Jim had explanations for becoming cannibals. So, The Panar leopard received a wound from a poacher and could no longer pursue common prey. Became a cannibal and destroyed more than 400 Human. The study of the leopard from Rudraprayag showed that he had sore gums and many broken teeth. As a result, ordinary objects for hunting, too, became unavailable. Almost all man-eating animals suffered from illness and injury. Many had unhealed gunshot wounds in their bodies. or porcupine quills ingrown into the body, causing constant pain.



Jim Corbett

At the same time, Corbett never killed for pleasure, although sport hunting for predators was widespread at the beginning of the century, which, due to injuries, provoked the appearance of such a large number man-eating animals. On the contrary, he protected animals that did not carry a threat. people. The only time he killed an innocent animal in the deaths of people and very sorry about it.



Corbett died in 1955 from a heart attack. To him was 79 years old. A hunter's house in the Indian village of Kaladhungi has been turned into a museum. And two years later, the national park was named after him. Subsequently, one of the surviving subspecies was named in his honor. tiger - Indochinese (Panthera tigris corbetti).