One of the most common herbicides atrazine appears to have an added deadly effect: It makes tiger salamanders more vulnerable to certain infections.
But living alongside potentially deadly 670-pound tigers poses its challenges, and the tigers must similarly contend with human disturbances.
Thursday's attack was the fourth deadly assault by a tiger this year in the Sundarbans, wildlife officials said.
If the army does make a final push and hundreds or thousands of civilians are killed, it could amount to the Tamil Tigers' most deadly mass suicide of the war.
In a gravelly riverbed blooming with dry desert brush, conservationist Dharmendra Khandal pointed to the spot where villagers once set a deadly trap for two young male tigers.
They say that zoos are safe; that accidents happen; that the decision to shoot the gorilla was the right one (just as Hanna said about a deadly incident at the San Francisco Zoo involving a tiger a decade ago).
"They're mostly quite venomous!" There's an abundance of tiger snakes, apparently, a species which is just waiting for just a couple of near relatives to become extinct before it makes it into the top 10 deadliest serpents list.
Great whites, tiger sharks and bull sharks are the deadliest species.
Specifically, we visited the tiger enclosure at Australia Zoo, which you might remember from deadly animal documentaries such as The Crocodile Hunter and Croc Files, and which is still owned by Terri Irwin, widow of Steve Irwin.
In "The Tiger," out last week from Knopf, John Vaillant confronts us with that very scenario, revisiting a deadly, mysterious tiger attack in 1997 that shocked the residents of Primorye Territory, in Russia's Far East.
