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A tigress that had killed about 200 people in Nepal was driven by Nepalese troops across the border into Kumaon, where she killed around 236 more. In 1907 Corbett tracked her after she killed a girl near Champawat and shot her during a beat organized with local villagers. A post-mortem showed that her upper and lower canine teeth on one side were broken, which was evidence that injury had turned her to humans.
Corbett treats the forest as a continuous stream of information. Alarm calls from langurs, kakar and birds, pugmarks, disturbed leaves and the behaviour of cattle together reveal where a predator is and what it is doing. Survival and success depend less on marksmanship than on fluency in these signals, and they let a hunter anticipate the animal instead of reacting to it.
Corbett insists that the tiger is a 'large-hearted gentleman' and that killing a man-eater is a regrettable necessity to protect villagers, not a sporting triumph. His moral stance separates the individual damaged animal from the species, and he argues that indiscriminate trophy hunting and careless wounding produce the very man-eaters that must then be destroyed.