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Which hunter eventually shot the Champawat tiger, a female that was reputedly responsible for more than 400 human death?

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Which hunter eventually shot the Champawat tiger, a female that was reputedly responsible for more than 400 human death?
posted Sep 7, 2017 by Pratiksha Shetty

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Jim Corbett

The Champawat Tiger was a female Bengal tiger responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon area of India, mostly during the 19th century. Her attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of fatalities from a tiger

In 1907, the tiger was killed by British hunter Jim Corbett. The tiger had killed a 16-year-old girl in the town of Champawat, and left a trail of blood and limbs, which Corbett followed. Corbett found the tiger and shot her dead the next day—a dramatic feat confirmed by about 300 villagers.

answer Sep 8, 2017 by Shubham Rajput
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