"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:

(*) Unless they see the target as prey and about the only animal that
really views humans as "prey" is the Tiger.

No, that's a myth, though it is one of the more likely to attack
people when it gets too ill to take other prey. The ones that did
(past) and do (present) are African leopards and Nile crocodiles /
Sal****er alligators. The former naturally prey on baboons, and
humans are similar, but they stopped doing that as soon as humans
became a threat (they are very intelligent). The latter see
EVERYTHING as prey!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Disagree. Maybe not so much now, but tigers used to eat a lot of people in
India. I got books about it in the library when I was a child: I was
allowed adult books non-fiction when I was 12, and I can assure you that
man-eating tigers were common in India in the Raj period.
I remember those books well. My mother didn't know I got them. I just used
to like to scare myself with them.

I don't believe that every tiger in those days was injured it seemed that
often they saw people bathing in the river and they were easy prey. Of
course they ate people, why wouldn't they?
When I saw a tiger face to face (it couldn't get to me obviously) and saw
the size of its paws and how huge it was, I knew that no human would have a
chance against it.