e have all heard of man-eating tigers or bears as part of childhood tales. While it is not uncommon for ferocious animals to attack humans, man-eaters are those distinct class of animals, who develop a taste for human flesh. One of the most prolific serial killer in recorded human history happens to be tigress of Champawat town with an estimated 430 kills. She was shot by Jim Corbett in 1907. Tiger of Mundachipallam in Tamil Nadu killed 7 people. Tigress of Jowlagiri was responsible for deaths of 15 people in Mysore and was later killed by Kenneth Anderson. Tigers of Chowgar were a pair of Bengal tigers that were responsible for 64 deaths over a span of five years. Most of the reported cases are from pre-Independence era. There were also reported incidents of man eating leopards in India. The main reason behind the aggressive nature of wild cats towards humans is believed to be due to three factors, i.e., salinity of their drinking water, their habitat being in close proximity to human beings and consumption of human corpses during floods.