13 Facts About Thak man-eater

The Thak man-eater was a female Bengal tiger who killed and ate four human victims between September and November 1938.

Thak man-eater was operating in Kumaon, at the Nepalese border, between the villages Thak, Chuka, Kot Kindri and Sem.

The story about the Thak man-eater is known as one of the most dramatic stories about man-eating animals.

The information about the female tiger, known as the Thak man-eater, comes from two documented stories written by hunter, conservationist and author Jim Corbett.

The reason for this was that next to the remote villages of Chuka and Thak, where the man-eater was operating, the government decided to fell trees and thousands of workers were planned to work in the area from November 1938.

Thak man-eater finally managed to kill the tigress on 30 November 1938, on the very last day of his second hunting expedition, and the last day of his career as a hunter of man-eating tigers and leopards.

The story "Thak man-eater" was written by Corbett as a fully documental account of his hunt after the tigress.

The village Thak was abandoned because of the fear of the man-eater, and the doors of many houses were left open.

Thak man-eater decided on a four-foot-high rock on a piece of flat land about 800 meters from the village of Thak, on the path from Thak to Chuka.

The rock, where Corbett met and killed the Thak man-eater, became a source of much research, speculations and controversy.

Thak man-eater villagers showed this rock to Byrne in 1975 This rock does not coincide with several important details of Corbett's description, and as a result, Peter Byrne's account of Corbett's hunt differs from Corbett's own account in many details.

Thak man-eater proposed that the path from Thak to Chuka have changed since 1938, and the killing site of the Thak man-eater is today about 25 meters away from the currently existing path.

New field research to the Thak man-eater village was carried out by several Corbett researchers in April 2018.