The True Story Of A Man-Eating Tiger's 'Vengeance'

NPR:

The injured tiger hunted Markov down in a way that appears to be chillingly premeditated. The tiger staked out Markov's cabin, systematically destroyed anything that had Markov's scent on it, and then waited by the front door for Markov to come home.

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Comments

[saami]

03:48 PM on 09/23/2010

The tiger had every justification so more power to the tiger!

[Simonsaid]

12:58 PM on 09/23/2010

Good for the tiger!!

[Ann Joyce]

12:24 PM on 09/23/2010

Tiger see, Tiger do.....we should not be shocked that our despicable methods of killing animals is coming back to "bite" us......

[SaulZ]

08:24 PM on 09/16/2010

I read the book just as it came out. It is an awesome read. You feel sympathy both for the men and the beast. Can easily be made into a movie like 'Jaws'.

[Maria2]

07:16 PM on 09/16/2010

I had no idea tigers were that smart. good thing they don't have opposible thumbs or they'd be growing us for food the way we grow cows.

the human over-population situation is out of control. but just try telling anyone to hold off having kids and they will look at you like you're the devil. a woman I work with got pregnant and this was right after she told me all these plans about saving up for a new house (this was back in 07). so I asked her if she was considering abortion and this other woman looked at me like I was the devil. people just pop out kids like it's the in thing, absolutely no one on this earth considers the consequences. I like kids but I don't want to have any (it's just too much work for me to bring up a child) and this other coworker asked me about it. I told her no way am I having kids and she told me I was selfish. WTF?

[rifraf1001]

03:44 PM on 09/16/2010

Evolution works. Tigers are growing wise to the insidious plague of a species whose out of control multiplication is consuming the skin of the Earth akin to flesh eating bacteria.

[Thisbeautifulplanet]

12:02 PM on 09/16/2010

Tiger, you are a true warrior and a walking splendor.

[J Accuse]

05:26 PM on 09/15/2010

"Oh here she comes/Watch out boy she’ll chew you up/Oh here she comes/She’s a maneater."

[LadyLeslie]

02:06 PM on 09/15/2010

I am impressed by the tiger. There has to be a workable way for humans to limit their reproduction so that they do not destroy habitat and then are astonished when the animals they have displaced, starved and driven to extinction are not willing to go quietly.
Tigers are highly intelligent and I am not surprised that this tiger "stalked" this man over a period of days. Of course they can remember things for a long time and it's not like it had a couple of dozen cabins to choose from. It was a totally isolated cabin.
Sorry, but I am pro-tiger.

[Thisbeautifulplanet]

02:25 PM on 09/16/2010

Fanned and faved by another pro-tiger internet user.

[saami]

03:49 PM on 09/23/2010

We need more tigers and less people.

[Fever911]

01:06 PM on 09/15/2010

Get 'em Big Kitty, Get 'em!

[LisaCACO]

09:37 PM on 09/14/2010

hey I have no problem remembering whom I'm rooting for in this: the tiger.

[seehowtheyrun]

01:03 AM on 09/16/2010

X2.

[pbh493]

06:38 PM on 09/14/2010

One day we will understand that animals feel and think just like us. Hopefully we won't have wiped them all out by then.

[olddognewtrick]

04:17 PM on 09/14/2010

Just thinning the herd...

[AxelDC]

04:12 PM on 09/14/2010

What a pretty cat!