Champawat Tiger: A Beast That Killed Over 400 Humans

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Champawat Tiger was the name given to a tigress, who in the early 1900s killed over 400 humans

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She was wounded by a gunshot that affected her attacking capabilities leading her to target humans for prey

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The tigress had killed over 200 individuals in Nepal, from where she was driven away

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She was later spotted in Champawat district in India's Uttarakhand where she re-started her reign of terror

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British hunter Jim Corbett ended her man-eating spree in 1907

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The Champawat Tigress's skull and skin are preserved at the Jim Corbett Museum in Uttarakhand

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The story of the Champawat tiger is also mentioned in Jim Corbett's book, Man-Eaters Of Kumaon

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The Champawat tigress will go down as one of history's deadliest man-eaters

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