8 Real-Life Man-Eating Animals
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10 January 2025
Despite being the dominant species, humans sometimes fall victim to larger predators - the so-called man-eaters
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Throughout history, these encounters have shown our vulnerability to nature's fiercest creatures. So, here are 8 real-life man-eating animals
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Tsavo Man-Eaters - In 1898 two male lions, dubbed the Ghost and the Darkness, killed around 35 railroad workers in Kenya, per Encyclopedia Britannica
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Champawat Tigress - In the early 1900s, a female tiger allegedly killed more than 400 people in Nepal and India over eight years
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Leopard of the Central Provinces - In the 1900s, the leopard of the Central Provinces killed nearly 150 women and children in India before being shot dead
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Jaws - Michael Crichton's book ‘Jaws' was inspired by the 1916 New Jersey shark attacks that killed four people
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Sloth Bear of Mysore - In 1957 a sloth bear dubbed the Sloth Bear of Mysore was thought to have killed a dozen people and injured twice that number near Bengaluru
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Gustave the crocodile - This nile crocodile terrorised Burundi's Ruzizi River and killed over 300 people and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary
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The lions of Njombe - In 1930, a pride of unusually aggressive lions in Njombe, Tanzania, killed over 50 people
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The Piranhas of the Suriname River - In the 1970s, piranhas in the Suriname River killed several people, including children. The exact death toll remains unknown
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