Have you heard stories about man-eater tigers / predators due to lack of food?

I guess if the animal has food, there’s no need for it to kill humans but any starving animal will do what it has to do to eat. If that means killing a human, it will if it is desperate enough.

Most things I’ve read about this indicate that large predators(on land) only hunt humans when they are injured,or unable to catch the prey that they would normally hunt. Humans are not a good source of food. Relatively bony, with little fat,and not a lot of muscle tissue. Easier to catch than an impala, or deer, or whatever though.

So. It’s more about the food sources that specific animal is capable of hunting,given its present physical condition.

That being said, some species are opportunistic, and will kill/eat what they run across, as they roam…

I think that we can solve two problems.

First, we have a lot of people on death row in prisons across the US. They are a cost to the state; they will be put to death anyway, and that sort of legal wrangling can go on for decades.

Second, we have lots of hungry tigers. They need to eat flesh in order to thrive.

My solution: send people who are destined for capital punishment to Africa or Asia – wherever these hungry tigers are. Let them loose in the jungle together.

If the humans survive, great. One assumes that they have been rehabilitated. If the tigers eat them, then, we have fewer criminals and fewer hungry tigers.

I have heard accounts of villages being hunted because food sources were shrinking. I’m sorry, I don’t recall where this was said to be taking place. Apparently, a female was caught on a wilderness cam teaching her cubs to stalk a village.
Tigers require several miles of territory to survive. The prey tjey hint normally is being pushed back because of developing. There are concerns over how to keep villagers safe, without having to kill the cats.

@elbanditoroso, wow.

@Patty_Melt – once the State has made the decision to take a human life, does the specific method matter?

Survivor could have wilderness cams planted all over. Ratings would skyrocket.
Also, you are nuts. Ha ha.

@elbanditoroso sounds like one of the ways of telling who is a witch.

If an animal is starving, weak, injured and unable to hunt its regular prey sources they may resort to human predation. It is what it is and in cases like this the poor animal should be euthanized. Otherwise I feel the opposite. How can you blame an animal for doing what comes naturally. If you choose to go hiking in bear country or cougar country or on a safari and you get nailed by a Leopard, oh well, your choice and never the animals fault.

^^ Going in animal territories is different thing. What if animals start attacking people like in this link

From what I’ve read the problem is that once they attack and kill a human they realize how easy it is to do, compared to other animals, and they start hunting them. No, I don’t think they can be “rehabilitated.”

^^Thats correct.