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https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> you gotta read about the REAL Tiger King, Jim Corbett.
He tracked and hunted man-eating tigers in the foothills of the Himalayas for decades in the early-mid-1900s and wrote great books about his experiences. 1/
He tracked and hunted man-eating tigers in the foothills of the Himalayas for decades in the early-mid-1900s and wrote great books about his experiences. 1/
His books filled me with a deep love and respect for nature, and an adoration for the wilds of Garhwal/Kumaon. His observational skills and natural affinity for nature are reflected in his beautiful writing. 2/ #TigerKingNetflix https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
The closest another book I& #39;ve read has come to that kind of passion and deep knowledge of nature has been John Muir& #39;s essays.
Corbett combines that with exciting stories about tracking and killing tigers! 3/
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Corbett combines that with exciting stories about tracking and killing tigers! 3/
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Now why would a man who loved nature kill tigers, Lila?
I will tell you, audience. When a tiger gets old or injured, it can& #39;t catch deer and rabbits anymore. Instead, it hangs out by villages and eats children and old people. It becomes a man-eater.
Some eat 300+ people! 4/
I will tell you, audience. When a tiger gets old or injured, it can& #39;t catch deer and rabbits anymore. Instead, it hangs out by villages and eats children and old people. It becomes a man-eater.
Some eat 300+ people! 4/
Anyway, Corbett sahib was an expert tracker who could tell the age, gender, and general health of a tiger just from a set of pug marks. He tracked animals from a very young age. 5/
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Over time, he got so good that villages would beg him to come and hunt man-eaters which terrorized them. So he& #39;d spend weeks and months tracking the man-eater and finally bag it. 6/
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Every single time, the tiger had been hurt, either by an animal (porcupine e.g.) or been hurt by an unscrupulous hunter, and couldn& #39;t hunt its usual prey, and had turned a man-eater. 7/
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He has a whole bunch of interesting books on these topics.
My favorite is Man-Eaters of Kumaon. It& #39;s a book that& #39;s special to me because a kumaoni friend who heard of my interest in Corbett bought it for me from the Corbett museum.
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My favorite is Man-Eaters of Kumaon. It& #39;s a book that& #39;s special to me because a kumaoni friend who heard of my interest in Corbett bought it for me from the Corbett museum.
For some reason I can& #39;t seem to paste the link
Just Tigers - The Very Best of Jim Corbett is a good collection of his writing to start with. #TigerKingNetflix https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> 9/
What I& #39;m saying is, given the renewed interest in big cats, read about them from a source who was very knowledgeable about them with a deep respect and passion for what they stood for. #TigerKing https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> 10/
Also Carol Baskin killed her husband #TigerKingNetflix https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> 11/11
