299: Revenge of the Tiger. Bikin National Park.

In the winter of 1997, a man-eating tiger terrorized a remote village in the Russian Far East. This wasn’t a defensive attack — the tiger was hunting specific humans, with eerie patience and purpose. What followed is one of the most chilling wildlife stories ever documented.

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Sources:

• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant (2010).
• Conflict Tiger, film by Sasha Snow (2006).

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