I have watched documentaries on the sunderbans and man eaters there.....seriously bad environment to operate in......I think one train of thought was that their diet contained a high level of salt for obvious reasons and maybe affected their behaviour....but very interesting to watch and the protective measures the game department people took including wearing crash helmets with faces painted on the back and spikes protecting the back of their necks.... Was a bit ago so hope I am correct
Your observations are sound , Spike T .
There is also another reason .... as to why the royal Bengal tigers living in the Sundarbans are far more likely to turn man eater , than royal Bengal tigers living in other parts of God's Green Earth .
You see... a royal Bengal tiger ( or a panther) becoming a man eater , is quite similar to a contagious virus spreading from 1 person to another .
Throughout history , human corpses have been frequently dumped in to the rivers of the Indian sub continent. Aside from murderers and criminals dumping the corpses of their victims , there have also been countless other times when people have dumped human corpses in to rivers .
It is a widely known fact that followers of the Hindu faith in India cremate their dead and scatter the ashes in to the Buri Ganga river . However , there are certain times when they DO NOT carry out this practice to the letter . During events of mass death ( such as genocides, war time , epidemics or pandemics ) ... Hindus will not cremate the corpses of their deceased , but will rather simply place a live burning coal inside the mouth of a human corpse and then throw the corpse in to a water body with flowing current ( In other words ; a river or a steam ) . They will consider the corpse to be properly cremated . These corpses invariably wash on to the river banks of the Sundarban man grove forests . Curious royal Bengal tigers will approach the corpses , sniff them and then take a few bites off of the human corpse . Once they have tasted the flesh of man ... these brutes shall prefer human meat to any other meat in existence . They become like heroine addicts , looking for their next shot .
Man eating royal Bengal tigers are even known to swim for hours through shallow water bodies in order to reach human settlements ( The Indian vegan socialist cow urine drinking pieces of shit will still repeatedly defend these brutes with their retarded justifications , by claiming that " Humans trespassed in to their territory " . ) . For this reason , it is imperative that a royal Bengal tiger ( or a panther ) which turns man eater ... must be dispatched immediately and as soon as possible . To make matters worse , man eating male royal Bengal tigers can teach their mates to develop a palate for the flesh of man . Man eating Tigresses can ( and virtually always , DO ) also teach their cubs to become man eaters . Thus , the chain of carnage never stops .
During the 1947 Muslim - Hindu communal clashes during the Partition Of India & Pakistan ... thousands of Hindus and Muslims were brutally killed by each other . The vast majority of their corpses were dumped in to the Buri Ganga river ( or streams which were connected to the Buri Ganga river ) .
Again, during our Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 .... our rivers ( Padma , Meghna and Jamuna ) were filled to the brim with human corpses , which invariably found their way on to the shores of the Sundarbans ( with the long term results being predictably inevitable ) . This is why the busiest years of Pachabdi Gazi's life and career... were the years after 1947 and 1971 . Because he had to constantly keep dealing with endless rampages in local towns and villages caused by man eating royal Bengal tigers . In 1 week of 1973 ... Pachabdi even had to dispatch 5 man eating royal Bengal tigers in less than 7 days .
We have a friend ( who is younger than us ) who is currently appointed by the Sundarban Forest Department to hunt down man eating royal Bengal tigers , whenever they menace the villages or towns in the Khulna Division of Bangladesh . As of 2020 , he has single handedly dispatched 7 man eating royal Bengal tigers ( in the Sundarbans) and 10 man eating forest panthers ( in the Maulvibazaar forests and Chittagong Hill Tracts ) over the last 22 years . On 1 occasion , he even submerged the lower half of his body in the water of a stream , in order to pursue a wounded man eating royal Bengal tiger which was attempting to swim away from him after he shot it.
He uses a personally owned 7 ×57 mm Mauser calibre bolt rifle for all of his hunting ( except wing shooting, for which he naturally uses a 12 Bore shot gun ) .
And the video which you saw is also extremely accurate . Forest Department Officers who are assigned to hunt down man eating royal Bengal tigers .... always protect the back of their necks with spikes on leather collars . This is because a man eating royal Bengal tiger ( or panther ) will always attempt to attack it's hapless victim from behind and will invariably attempt to crush the victim's spinal column with their strong jaws in order to immobilize them.
