But immobilizing darts don’t bring on sleep gently-they knock the creature out without warning. The tiger reared up and snarled and raced away. He fired as the tiger was about to attack the goat. This animal was not the man-eater, but so close to human habitation she might pose a threat to the villagers, especially as she was with cub. The hunter had two rifles with him: one with real bullets, the other with immobilizing darts.
Only once the tiger had quenched her thirst did she turn to the goat to satisfy her hunger. Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater urge. It raced to the water’s edge, where it drank eagerly. Oddly, the cub, who looked to be about three months old, paid little attention to the goat. But it was a sleek tiger that stepped into the open one night: a female with a single cub. He assumed the panther would be an old, wasted male with worn teeth, incapable of catching anything more difficult than a human. A goat was tied to a stake on the river’s bank. He set up a small, hidden platform in a free near a river where two of the attacks had taken place.
The Forest Department hired a professional hunter. The villagers kept a watch nearby that night, hoping to surprise the panther and kill it, but it never appeared. The beast dragged him off into the forest, and his corpse was later found hanging from a tree. The previous victim was a man who had been attacked in broad daylight in his field. She was the seventh person killed in two months by the animal. It had recently carried off a little girl. Richard Parker was so named because of a clerical error.Ī panther was terrorizing the Khulna district of Bangladesh, just outside the Sundarbans. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
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