Did rice crops create the most prolific maneater in recorded human history? Your hosts delve in to the story of the Champawat tiger, a creature which terrorized Indian and Nepalese villages for a period of ten years, evading large-scale efforts to hunt it down and ultimately killing an estimate of 436 people. Featuring the factors which make a maneater, a real-life musical instrument straight out of Hannibal, Amelia dunking on the British Empire, and Sarah dunking on Amelia for taking 10 minutes in the middle of the episode to look up a statistic.

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