Tigers Kill People in Their Struggle For Turf in India - Ullas Karanth

Tigers have killed seventeen people in India dating back to late 2013, but biologist Ullas Karanth would call it a misnomer to say that the endangered cats are "man-eaters." Karanth tells Boyd that hundreds of thousands of India's 1.2 billion people have made their home in traditional tiger habitats and live in close proximity with them. When tigers emerge from the forest, people often harass and try to chase them away, often leading to human fatalities. But he does say that since tigers reproduce fairly rapidly, it's important not to value one tiger's life over the protection of the rest of the species, so if one animal insists on killing humans, it must be put down.