Champawat Tiger
The Champawat Tiger was a Bengal Tigress responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon division of India, during the last years of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century. Her attacks have been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of fatalities from a tiger (as well as any animal). She was shot and killed in 1907 by a 25 year old Jim Corbett.
The tiger would adjust her hunting strategy so as to best hunt and evade humans—travelling great distances between villages (as much as 32 km (20 mi) in a day, undertaken at night) in her new territory both to claim new victims and evade pursuers. Her behavior became more like a Siberian tiger in her habits and she created a larger territory to encompass multiple villages in the Kumaon area, with Champawat being close to the center of her territory. Most of her victims were young women and children, who often went into the forest to collect firewood, feed livestock, and gather resources for craft work.
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