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| Ferris, W.B. | |
| A mark on the skin of a man-eating tiger | |
| 1900 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (12): 410-410 | |
In 1894 a tigress with a three-quarter grown male cub was the scourge of the valleys at the foot of the western slop of the Amboli Ghƒt in the Sawant vadi State. The tigress killed and mauled many men and women, but, instead of eating, used to toss them over to the cub, who always preferred human to animal flesh. I went out several times after the pair, and though my anxiety was naturally to bag the tigress, that of the villagers was that I should kill the cub, for, they said, the mother will not attack human beings if there is no one to eat them. The villagers declared that the cub was born with the propensity for man-eating, and assured me that when it was killed, I should find the "man-eating mark" upon it. I asked what this might be, and was told a distinct cross on one side of the body, generally the left side. I laughed at this idea, but found that it obtained universal credence. |
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