A. As you leave the bandhavgarh national park in central india ,there is a notice which shows a huge ,placid tiger .the notise says, you my not have seen me ,but i have seen you .There are more than a bilion people in india and india tigers probably see humance every single day thire lives.tigers can and do kill almost anything they meet in the jungle .They wil even attack elephants and rhino .surely ,then, it is little strange that attacks on hummans are not more frequent. B.
Some people might argue that these attacks were in fact common in the past.
british writers of the advanture stores ,such as jim corbett ,gave the impression that vilage life in india b in the early years of the twentieth century involed a state off constant siege by man eating tigers .But they may have overstated the terror spread by tigers thare were also far more tigers around in those days (probably 60,ooo in the subcontinent ,compared to just 3000 today ) . so in the proportion , attacks appear to have been as rare then as they are today .
cC. It is widely assumed that the constraint is fear ;but was exactly are tigers afraid of ?? can they really know that we may be even batter armed than they are /? surely not. Has the specied programmed the experiences og al tiger with humans into its genes to be inherited as instinct//?? perhaps. But i think the explanation may be more simple and ,in a way ,more intriguing .
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D. Since the growth of ethology in the 1950,we have tried to understand animal behaviour from the animal's point of view .Until the first elegant experiments by peoneers in the field,such as konred lorenz ,naturalists wrote about animals as if they were slightly less the intelligent humans .Jim corbett's breathless acounts of his duels with man -eaters in truth tell us more about jim corbett than they do about the animals .
The principle of ethology , on the other hand , requires us to attempt to think in the same way as the aimal we are studying thinks , and to observe every tin details of its behaviour without imposing our own human significaces .
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