OT: A new animal to be afraid of....

[intlzncster]

Read this.....


Meet the deadliest single animal in recorded history: The Champawat Tigress (9 Photos)

This is amazing. What a specimen.

Funniest part is the article acts as a tiger conservation effort towards the end.

I was a little dissappointed that the Colonel assembled 300 guys to trap it. I feel like with warrior of that magnitude, you should have to kill it mano y mano. He did face it down alone though.

Don't think I didn't notice that little tidbit about Gustave the Nile Croc either. 300+ and still truckin. Go Gustave Go!

 

[huskyrob1]

Dude, I just spent like 45 minutes reading about killer animals. Thanks.

What's unfortunate is that not only today are tigers endangered but are on average smaller than they were around 1900, for the simple reason that big game hunters shot all the large males for trophies. It was open season on them into the early 1960's.

 

[huskyrob1]

Dude, I just spent like 45 minutes reading about killer animals. Thanks.

Corbett's book is great read, from hunting man eaters, trout fishing in the Himalayas, the magnificent forests which are gone now. He saw it coming, too. Corbett National Park in the Himalayan foothills is named after him. A movie was made in the late 1940's very loosely based on his book, surprised Spielberg or James Cameron haven't tried to film it.

 

[uconndoit]

"Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world
is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding
on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see."
- Jack Handey