Why do tigers eat humans?
Much has been made of the tiger’s appetite for human flesh. The truth being that real man-eaters, are those tigers that deliberately and consistently hunt human prey, are extremely rare. Most man-eaters are tigresses. The tigress kills man when she is wounded or when she has deteriorated so much that she can no longer hunt deer. In times of scarcity of food, she is desperate to feed her cubs and hence resorts to killing humans. The tigress who has slaughtered a human being she immediately abandons this habit, once her family becomes self-supporting.
