| First was the necessity for ridding the jungle of man-eaters, and it was only after depredations by these grim and terrible scourges that a lion hunt was organized. |
| We'd have heard if people were being savaged by vulpine man-eaters. |
| The famous shikari used to say that big cats did not become man-eaters unless they were forced into it, usually by injuries which prevented them from hunting their usual prey. |
| Until scientific evidence became available, the most famous tales centred invariably around man-eaters, narrated by the shikari or hunter-turned-conservationist. |
| The frizzle-headed man-eaters were loath to leave their fleshpots so long as the harvest of human carcases was plentiful. |
