By Sheetal Kumari | June 13, 2025
The Deadliest Man-Eating Tigress in History. Learn the chilling tale of the tigress that terrorised villages and killed hundreds before being halted.
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In Nepal, villagers lived in terror as a Bengal tigress started attacking humans, not animals.
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She took more than 200 lives in Nepal alone before authorities drove her out.
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Under pressure, the tigress strayed into India’s Uttarakhand state, where her killing continued unabated.
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Champawat’s total tally of victims? 436 humans, the most for any individual man-eater in recorded history.
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Folks deserted fields and houses. Markets were vacated. Nobody felt secure outdoors after dark.
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British big game hunter Jim Corbett was commissioned to track and put an end to the tigress once and for all.
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In 1907, Corbett finally shot down Champawat by the village of Champawat after a perilous chase.
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A cracked tooth in her canines probably made it tough to hunt animals, driving her to attack humans.
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Champawat’s tale prompted fresh strategies in handling human-wildlife conflict and made Corbett a wildlife hero.
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