An exception is in the Sundarbans, where healthy tigers prey upon fishermen and villagers in search of forest produce, humans thereby forming a minor part of the tiger's diet.
Man-eaters have been a particular problem in recent decades in India and Bangladesh, especially in Kumaon, Garhwal and the Sundarbans mangrove swamps of Bengal, where some healthy tigers have hunted humans.
Oseltamivir (Roche, Basel, Switzerland) (75mg/60 kg) was administered twice daily to the healthy tigers (4).
Nasal swabs and blood samples were obtained from both infected and healthy tigers in the other 2 zones.
Two healthy looking tigers tear at chicken carcasses rapidly rotting in the African sun.
He now thinks it will be easier to find "free-ranging, healthy, reproducing tigers" to fill them, because there should be no objection to introducing Indochinese specimens into the incest-ridden breeding stock.Mr Tilson first made himself unpopular with his hosts in 2001.
Even apparently healthy white tigers generally do not live as long as their orange counterparts.
Although they can kill healthy adults, tigers often select the calves or infirm of very large species.
