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Jim Corbe�

Jim Corbe�, born Edward James Corbe� was born on 25th July 1875.
He was a Bri�sh hunter, tracker, naturalist and an author who had
hunted many man ea�ng �gers and leopards in India. He had a rank
of colonel in the Bri�sh Indian Army and was frequently called by the
Government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh now the
Indian states of U�ar Pradesh and U�arakhand, to kill man-ea�ng
�gers and leopards that were a�acking and killing people in the
nearby villages of the Kumaon -Garhwal Regions. He has wri�en
many books like Man Eaters of Kumaon Jungle Lore, and other books
telling us about his hunts and experiences, which enjoyed cri�cal
acclaim and commercial success. He became a revered photographer
and spoke out for the need to protect India's wildlife from ex�nc�on.
Also, Corbe� used to kill �gers and leopards only if it was required as
those animals, like all big cats, were facing ex�nc�on.

During his life, Corbe� tracked and shot a number of
leopards and Tigers; about a dozen were well known
man-eaters. Corbe� provided es�mates of human
casual�es in his books, including Man-Eaters of Kumaon,
The Man-Ea�ng Leopard of Rudraprayag, and The
Temple Tiger, and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon.
According to Corbe�, the �gers and leopards had killed
more than 1200 people. There is some difference in the
official human death tolls that the Bri�sh and Indian
governments have on record and Corbe�'s es�mates.

The first famous man-ea�ng �ger Corbe� had killed was the Champawat �ger. It was known to kill around
436 people . Though most of his kills were �gers, Corbe� had also successfully killed 2 man ea�ng leopards.
The first was the Panar Leopard in 1910, which had killed 20 people . The second was the man-ea�ng
Leopard of Rudraprayag in 1926, which terrorized the pilgrims journeying to the holy Hindu shrines
Kedarnath and Badrinath for more than eight years, and was said to have killed more than 126. Another
one of his famous �ger kills was the Chowgarh man-ea�ng �gress.

A�er hun�ng down many man-ea�ng �gers and leopards for a long �me, Jim Corbe� re�red and se�led
down in Nyeri, Kenya.
He died on 19th April, 1955 aged 79 in Nyeri, Kenya.
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