2 Which cat kills the most people Tigers probably kill more people each year than any other cat Tigers are very strong They grab their prey with their claws and clutch it within reach of their powerful jaws Tigers can swim very well and can climb though not as well as leopards The tiger’s eyesight is not very good so tigers depend upon their hearing and sense of smell when hunting The tiger eats an enormous amount of food and will stay with its dead prey until it is all eaten Tigers often hunt at night Most tigers avoid people as much as possible but some become terrible human eaters A human eating tiger can terrify populations in dozens of square miles of countryside People refuse to travel at night or go to remote villages An unarmed person is no match for such a human eater Tigers have even been known to raid villages ripping through the thin walls and doors of houses to get at the people within
Tiger
In 1911 the famous hunter and writer Jim Corbett killed an Indian tiger that had been a human eater for the previous eight years This tiger was reported to have killed more than four hundred people in that time Corbett said that most tigers that become human eaters are old or injured animals The tigers turn to people as their prey because they are not able to catch swifter animals Hunters sometimes wound a tiger and then fail to follow it and kill it These tigers become even more dangerous to people Even recently some areas in India Bangladesh and Southeast Asia have had trouble with tigers that have become human eaters But today the number of places where tigers live has dwindled and the survival of their species is endangered
