Alie Ward

But there is a very willy-inducing video of her being led away from the scene.

She's coughing her face, which is gushing blood.

Side note, this is not a super new phenomenon, but it is relatively rare, especially considering that the tiger's numbers used to be potentially in the tens or hundreds of thousands before 1875, when 80,000 of them were slaughtered by bullets and steel traps over just a few decades.

So with only around 5,000 left in the wild today,

Around 50 humans are killed by them each year, but well over 300 people are trampled by elephants.

But many of the tiger attacks on humans come from proximity.

People are encroaching further and further into their habitat and also decimating what would be the tiger's prey otherwise.

Now, I don't know what your deal is, but if you can't get enough of tigers eating people, you may want to thumb through a book called The Maneaters of Kumon, the 1944 memoir by Jim Corbett, who was a naturalist and a tiger hunter.

And yes, the term man-eater, it's problematic on so many fronts, not the least of them sexism, but also it's got a lot of colonialist overtones.

But Corbett's book apparently includes many tales of such attacks, including a tigress who killed over 400 people.

They found out later that it was mainly because she had been shot in the mouth and couldn't use her teeth to full capacity, but could still gnaw on slow, squishy people.

And I get it.

We're probably delicious.

Also, even if they were just pissed at humans, I would get it.

I would be like, you know what?

Justified.

And while I cannot personally endorse...

this book because it's sad, scary.

I hear it does conclude with Jim's assertion that he would rather photograph than shoot the tigers.

Now, more recently from 2016 to 2018, there was a female tiger in India named T1, and she had two cubs, and the three of them were responsible for over a dozen human deaths.