Why Couldn't This Tiger Be Stopped?

hey 42 here today I want to tell you a strange and terrifying story and by the end of this video you will gain a fascinating insight into the psychology of a tiger that will change how you view this majestic animal forever did you know viagra is the Sanskrit word for tiger I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere but it's an appropriate name because like the famous male enhancement pill a tiger should never be underestimated when it comes to dangerous animal attacks you'll usually find a predictable possum sometimes a person is stalked but mostly they're attacked it random in perhaps a fleeting moment of territorial aggression or fear but what you will never find is when an animal specifically hunts one man in order to kill him that is extraordinarily rare and is what makes this story so unique because there is one instance when an amour tiger did exactly that and what happened will astonish you now fair warning the following story is true but disturbing it's 1997 prime Oya Far East Russia is a place where man and nature exist in their own unique relationship and have unspoken rules bordering with China Primorye aswer over 600 miles of forest wilderness beset by steaming hot summers that swore with unforgiving books and harsh frozen winters it was here during one of these frozen winters that a young desperate hunter named vladimir markov was hunting in the forest when he stumbled across the mutilated corpse of a wild boar it was immediately obvious that the boar had been killed by a large powerful animal potentially a bear or leopard but most likely or tiger the incredible violence of the kill suggested as much but scanning the tall grasses around him there was no Tiger to be seen stealing the kill was an unmissable opportunity for markov he was starving after all and much of the ball could be sold and eaten this meant sparing him the cold and potentially a days wasted labor without finding game so he decided to steal it even if it meant a confrontation with a tiger this fateful decision would be his undoing but perhaps this confrontation was exactly what Markov wanted or at least he thought he did like most animals conflict between man and tiger are almost always the result of an unhealthy environment where food and opportunity on both sides are scarce Tigers begin to view humans as direct competition and in the case of this killing that's exactly what happened Pramila is a region long beset with poverty unemployment and poor pay to hunters in these circumstances Tigers are attractive game at 10 trillion dollars the global black market is one of the world's fastest-growing economies and after drugs and weapons poaching is one of the most popular black market trades in traditional Chinese medicine almost every aspect of the tiger is illegally harvested for supposed medicinal value and at the Russia China border Tigers fetch a fifty thousand dollar price tag a tempting amount especially for a starving hunter even students of conservation have been known to turn their knowledge towards poaching out of desperation but the more Tigers aren't like other targets of poaching for one thing they are by far the largest big cat on the planet where in African lion or Indian Tiger can reach sizes of four hundred pounds and a more Tiger can reach six hundred sometimes even meet you 1,000 pounds but this fearsome size isn't actually what makes the amore Tiger so dangerous it's their psychology having grown up along sind mankind as the rival predator on land vo more Tiger is unique in its characteristics and confidence where a lion will flee from Masai tribesman or a leopard will always ensure it is out of sight and a more Tiger is an apex predator with a clear preference for taking on the most dangerous animals without hesitation it is an animal that devours Russian bears in their own caves will charge helicopters attempting to track it leap out of the water onto boats far out at sea horrifying the fishermen on board and it will even in some circumstances hunt and kill the animal all over creatures fear mam a hungry a moor tiger is like a honey badger on crack it doesn't give a but unlike a honey badger it has to skill strength and speed to back up its enormous bollocks it's no wonder that many Primorye locals call them more Tigers the Czar of the forest a fitting title for an animal that treats itself as such and if in the case of vladimir markov you've now offended the tsar by stealing his kill he will most certainly come after you to put you in your place which is exactly what happened after tracking markov and it's borer that had been stolen from it an enormous tiger exploded from the forest after a horrified Markov in a panic he threw the ball to the ground desperately opened fire onto the tiger and escaped with his life into the forest but little did he know the confrontation was far from over Tigers are exceptional detectives with a determined singular focus because it was shot at close range the tiger was easily able to identify the scent of who shot it and triangulating which way its attacker had even fled starting to track Markov down no human tracker could replicate the skill of this incredible creature to have it skill stolen was a transgression but this man had gone a step further and dared to attack it the tiger would fire him and kill this man and find him it did returning to his cabin Markov spent a sleepless night in terror he knew and the depths of his soul that he was in danger and that by the laws of the premiere forest he had committed a grave sin to many of the natives and a more Tiger is almost a deity it is said that if it is watching you you would never know it they say a tiger can see you 100 times before you see it once that it can pass through the long grass with only the faintest rustle and as a single twig broken under its paws but it is also said that if you attempt to kill a tiger and you let it live your death is guaranteed and death had found its way to Markov outside his cabin the tiger had found him and in doing so patiently began to study him to enter its preys enveloped a concept coined by an Estonian psychologist called jakob von hooks cook and unveiled is the bubble world that every animal lives inside what he perceives once needs what his habits are who he is if you can put yourself inside that enveloped you can better understand the animal or in the Tigers case you can better understand your prey and when would be the most lethal moment to strike the moment when he was most vulnerable in the morning Markov rose and nervously checked the outside of his cabin to his horror everything with his scent on it had been destroyed in an eerily methodical way almost like an omen whatever this Tiger was it clearly could not contain its hatred for him I can only imagine how frightened Markov must have been at this point at this moment he could have packed up his things and left but instead he decided to confront the animal spike it's amongst the trees ten metres from his window Markoff raised his rifle and fired on the animal wounding it terribly and causing it to flee once it did he took his chance and escaped down the valley to where he knew a friend was staying but little did he know his decisions who wounds to tiger had already sealed his fate his friends didn't give him the reaction he expected frightened his friend told him to stay away that he had made a mistake that he didn't want mark of anywhere near him after all he didn't want mark of scent or footprints bringing the beast to his door he had his own loved ones to think of he was well aware of the enormous power and amour tiger wielded and rightly feared it he also knew Markov had brought this upon himself dejected Markov sought out help from security at the local sawmill telling them that he had an encounter with a tiger and it was now after him sympathetic they told him to be careful but beyond that couldn't and wouldn't offer any help poor and overburdened themselves they weren't about to risk their lives against such a deadly hunter so Markov was alone and he had nowhere to go and the tiger was after him with the cold winter night setting in markov had no choice but to return to his cabin or die he could even confront the animal that he knew was waiting for him or freeze to death in the snow he chose his cabin and alone walked back towards his final confrontation a man that has offended a tiger of the natives believe will most certainly die and in this cold darkness the tiger was waiting for him rather than impulsively acting out in a spur-of-the-moment aggression the tiger had set its mind on killing Markov slowly savoring the hunt and anticipating the kill and for almost 48 hours after their initial confrontation it held no other fought in its mind like a trained assassin the tiger knew Markov would return to his nest and it waited patiently until cold tired and afraid he finally returned armed and ready for the confrontation Markov came back prepared for what he must have known was his last chance to survive the animal and whilst it may have been easier to just fall asleep and succumb to hypothermia Markov was no coward driven by desperation into a terrible circumstance he would now meet his fate it was a few days later when markoff's body was found his friend Alexander de varnak was among the group that found his body he was so horrified by what he saw that not only did he have nightmares ever since he vowed to exterminate Tigers for not day forth alongside the varnak experts were called in to investigate the situation inspection tiger an official unit set up to handle conflicts between men and tigers arrived on the scene led by a man named Yuri trush a professional hunter and conservationist it was his dog that alerted the men to the Tigers nearby presence invisible to them it was apparent that the dog was perturbed by the knowledge of the giant predator it had detected in the darkness none of the men could see the animal but all of them could hear it as if it was everywhere at once trotty recorded much of the investigation on camera he discovered that Markov had been walking home when the tiger found him he found that Markos remains had been dragged into the forest before they arrived as they followed the tracks they continued to hear the tiger nearby but still couldn't see it at last they found what had horrified Alexander de vorlix so much the corpse at markov had been mauled torn eaten and strewn across a 5 metre square patch there were limbs a head but no body to be found the tiger hadn't just killed Markov it hadn't Radek ated him from the face of the earth devouring the mutilating him over the course of three days in an active prolonged and cruel vengeance but to truss there was something else that disturbed him the tracks at the kill site measured 17 centimeters suggesting that the maneater that had hunted Markov was an enormous fully grown male more than 600 pounds in weight and over 10 feet in length trush could not imagine a more dangerous predator but for now with Markov's death they thought it was over however they were wrong soon the paw prints of a large tiger were seen around the nearby villages lurking closer stalking Holmes engaging in all the behaviors that trush knew meant one thing and one thing only this tiger wasn't finished hunting men and was now actively seeking them out but for what purpose everyone was warned to stay out at the forest because a maneater was lurking and coming across it meant almost certain death but one man and rape a chap Nia who had just returned from the army ignored these warnings an ambitious young man who was full of life he wanted to roam explore the forest and hunt likely choking up the official warnings to scare mongering or paranoia his death was reported soon later when the inspection Targhee unit discovered his remains there was nothing left of his body every inch of it must have been eaten all that remain of perch apnea was his clothing all of which had been disturbingly removed and set into a neat pile as if the tiger had carefully undressed its victim like husking an ear of corn only the bloody stains told the obvious story this new attack led the inspection Tiger unit to make a final decision the tiger had to be found and killed before it struck again its last known location had been a hunter's cabin that it had broken into it had trashed a house and lying on a mattress had waited for an unsuspecting victim to return so it could kill it thankfully nobody did so it moved on the Tiger tracks indicated it was limping on free pause where a healthier more Tiger can move over 100 kilometers in a single day this one had been lying down to rest every 80 meters it's right for like had been badly wounded presumably by Markov if this was true then there was no way that the animal could hunt its usual hoofed prey which would now be far too quick for it it's only option for survival was to stalk slow unwitting men with this news everyone hunkered down in the village as inspection Tiger tracked the tiger through the forest eventually coming to an open field once there it became immediately obvious that the final meeting between the two hunters had occurred Chaucer's dog became instantly nervous agitated and then afraid it knew what the men could not the tiger was there and it was getting ready to strike suddenly an enormous roar burst out from around the map shaking them to their bones and the tiger exploded from the tall grass directly at your etroesch each of the men startled then opened fire on the animal the tiger Fluit rush as he shot crushing him to the ground with its enormous vicious badi certain he was dead trust drove his rifle deep into the Tiger's mouth and pulled the trigger but when he came to the tiger was dead and he had survived the Tiger's Claw would have shred through his bone lungs and chest but instead it had lodged into his mounted walkie-talkie miraculously that had saved him and with the tiger dead the nightmare was over helping trust to his feats the inspection tiger unit began their autopsy examining the animal's body for wounds and skinning it to examine the pelt in fine detail the autopsy and skin confirmed Chaucer's suspicions the animal had been wounded many times in particular by bullets and homemade bird shots that had ravaged and weakened its body so much so that it could no longer hunt wild boar Sika deer or red deer and it had been forced into continued conflict with man it had decided to track stalk and kill vladimir Markov out of revenge for violating the rules of the forest if it had never been shot or robbed of its kill perhaps his whole situation would have never occurred but it had continued to hunt men of necessity they had stolen its ability to hunt anything else and survive and now his crush no doubt for to himself they had stolen its life and so ended the story of the maneater that terrorized primordia but as the harsh conditions of life in the Far East continued to force men to take desperate measures and the Tigers natural habitat and prey continues to diminish one thing is certain map an Tiger will meet again if this story interests you then be sure to check out John valence amazing book the tiger linked in the description you can also support a more tiger conservation by donating to the relevant charities and conservation efforts because losing these beautiful creatures would be an his star Rick tragedy thanks for watching do you enjoyed this video then please consider supporting me on patreon it really helps me to continue to make these videos the links in the description also I've recently launched my first book sticky flight in it a thousand years of bizarre history from britain and beyond you can get your hands on a first edition signed copy by heading on over to unban publishing the links in the description i'm pledge today thank you

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Length: 19min 46sec (1186 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 11 2020