See thats kind of spooky that people live in an area where you could really be eaten by a tiger..being in the US makes you soft to animal attacks.
The Sundarbans is one of the few places where the cats actively prey on people. And they're stalk predators so when people walk in a series the last guy on the line wears a mask on the back of his head and this actually works from what I hear.
The bengal region was full of tigers back in the early british colonial days but hunting the deforestation took them out. The place where my mother was born was full of leopards, tigers and elephants but now they're gone along with the forests that housed them.