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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Howery" data-source="post: 2745664" data-attributes="member: 17239">not just the tigers.... you did notice that the wolves were bad guys here too, judging from that "take them" remark in the trailer.Today, we think of tigers as nearly extinct creatures to be pitied and saved.  75 years ago, no one really thought like that.  Tigers were occasionally a real menace to Indians in the colonial era.  Some of them them turned maneater and killed hundreds of Indians.  One tigress, the Champawatt Tigress, is thought to have killed and eaten 436 people in two countries.  Does this mean tigers are evil?  Of course not... no animal is.  But you have to realize that when Lewis was writing his books, tigers were not thought of as severely endangered animals, but as a creature that was all too prone to be maneaters...</blockquote>