So this tiger was hunting humans for two years (how regularly,
no one knows) until someone shot it dead. Upon examining the
skull it was apparent why this tiger was preferentially hunting
humans; its canines are heavily worn down. The canines even look
like they could have broken and were subsequently worn down from
continued use. With its teeth so worn down this tiger must have
found hunting large game difficult, so it resorted to hunting
easy prey, i.e. humans. It's a pretty neat specimen, and we
admired it for a while, but after our initial excitement wore
down, we moved on to other specimens. However, this specimen was
yet to give us all its surprises. After I had gone through quite
a few of the cat skull boxes, I came across a number of isolated
mandibles; some lion, but others tiger. I noted that the
specimen numbers on these mandibles matched those of isolated
skull materials that I had previously measured so I got pretty
excited. What's more, I found the mandibles to the 'man-eater'
tiger skull: As yo