India is home to the world’s largest, protected wild tiger population. As their habitats can overlap with humans, conflicts are on the rise.

Very few of these attacks involve "problem tigers" that venture from the forests and national parks to attack humans and livestock, Mayukh Chatterjee, field program manager for the Chester Zoo in ...

Tiger attacks on humans: Ways to stay safe Early removal of old tigers before they begin attacking humans, however, requires regular monitoring (camera trapping and tracking).

Encounters often occur while residents are engaged in daily livelihood activities like farming or herding. Big cats like tigers and lions launched the deadliest attacks, with 65% proving fatal.

“Old tigers that can no longer hunt for food do find humans as easy prey and attack them, but that too only in the jungle.” ...

The mystery of how a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo managed to escape from its cage, kill one visitor and maul two others is getting clearer. Three days after the fatal attack, investigations by ...

The tiger involved in the San Francisco attack, for example, had already shown her aggressive nature when she attacked a zookeeper during feeding time in 2006.

Tigers, typically apex predators avoiding humans, may become man-eaters due to physical impairments hindering hunting abilities, habitat loss pushing them closer to villages, and human activities ...

The hunt for a tiger blamed for more than a dozen fatal attacks on humans has sparked controversy in India. The female tiger, known as T1, has terrorized villagers in the western state of ...

The three large sharks that account for most attacks on people – the great whites, the tigers and the bull sharks – have been studied extensively.

A man-eating tiger that has killed 10 people in northern India is on the loose, and forestry officials have called in some experts: the local nobility.

Surviving a tiger attack: How hunters became the hunted 50 Years of Project Tiger: For the traditional communities living in the world’s largest mangrove forest, hunting, fishing and gathering ...