Every day in India, there is news that wild animals prey on humans. From Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala to Uttar Pradesh and hilly states, elephants, tigers and leopards kill humans. These days, there is terror of man-eating wolves in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, which has so far made a woman and 9 children its prey.
Amidst the terror of man-eating animals, do you know how a wolf or tiger or other wild animal becomes a man-eater? Here we will know how an animal becomes a man-eater.
The Persian word is cannibal
Actually, the word cannibal is made up of the Arabic word ‘Aadam’ and the Persian word ‘Khor’. It means ‘man eater’. In simple language, the word cannibal is used for the animal that eats humans or makes humans its prey.
When does a wild animal become a man-eater?
First of all, this question must be arising in your mind that when does any wild animal become a man-eater. Let us tell you that when wolf, tiger, leopard and other animals taste human blood, they become addicted to that human blood. When the man-eaters feel hungry again, they start looking for humans to hunt instead of hunting other things.
They become man-eaters when they don’t find prey
It is believed that when these ferocious animals do not find prey, they become man-eaters. According to the forest department team, wild animals like lions, tigers and wolves become man-eaters only when they do not get enough food in the forest.
It is easy to hunt children
Apart from this, once these animals start eating human flesh, they start liking this kind of meat. In rural areas, it is easier for man-eating animals to attack small children than grown-up people. That is why they mostly target children.
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