man-eater

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Humans eat tons of shark every year but you bite one leg and suddenly you're the "man-eater". Tsk.

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Quick take

a person who eats human flesh

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noun

a person who eats human flesh

noun

large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for man-eater.

noun

a person who eats human flesh

noun

large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans

Example sentences

Humans eat tons of shark every year but you bite one leg and suddenly you're the "man-eater". Tsk.

I don't know if any amount of "awareness" is going to stop the people who live near them from revenge killings of man-eaters. Hard to blame them honestly.

Anecdotally, many of the Sundarban tigers are man-eaters and there is a tacit policy to not go after the ones that happen to kill humans. This keeps the poachers and encroachers away, but also makes any census nearly impossible to conduct.

Remembering that this was a different time, and in most cases the animals only became problem man-eaters after something like an injury has forced them to target people. Corbett's books are a fascinating read because even though he's a hunter, he's very interested in conservation of the habitats.

I definitely recommend reading Jim Corbett's work, it's an interesting view of life when there was a real chance of you being eaten by a man-eater, and seeing how his work hunting man-eaters led to the establishment of the Corbett national park in India.