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[During the mating season, animals become as totally preoccupied with sex as do human beings when the sex drive is strong. This is illustrated in the passage below from Jim Corbett’s account of his shooting the Thak man-eater, which formed the final chapter of his 1944 bestseller, Man-eaters of Kumaon. It was November, the mating season for tigers. There was only half an hour of light left for shooting, and knowing that this would perhaps be the last chance he would get to kill the tigress, he called her up. It was a very risky decision. She was about a mile away, and if she didn’t arrive before the light faded, he and his four companions would be at her mercy in the dark, dense jungle.]

The tigress however did not keep to the contour of the hill, which would have brought her out on the path a little beyond the hump, but crossed a deep ravine and came straight towards where she had heard my last call, at an angle which I can best describe as one o’clock. This manoeuvre put the low ridge of rock, over which I could not see, between us. She had located the direction of my last call with great accuracy, but had misjudged the distance, and not finding her prospective mate at the spot she had expected him to be, she was now working herself up into a perfect fury, and you will have some idea of what the fury of a tigress in her condition can be when I tell you that not many miles from my home a tigress on one occasion closed a public road for a whole week, attacking everything that attempted to go along it, including a string of camels, until she was finally joined by a mate.

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