The tiger's method of hunting and killing its prey is an astonishing one. It hunts game of all kinds including elephants, gaur, and buffalo. It preys on deer, nilgai, zebra, wild pig, blackbucks, etc.

Ordinarily the tigers hunt between sunset and dawn. Driven by hunger it will eat almost anything, fowl, fish, reptiles, or carrion. Many, in the absence of game animals or from opportunity take to cattle killings. The same applies to man eating, a vice acquired in some circumstances.

The great Bengal Tiger.