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The Thak man-eating tigress, when skinned by Corbett, revealed two old gunshot wounds ; one in her shoulder had become septic, and as Corbett suggested, could have been the reason for the tigress's having turned man-eater.
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Other notable man-eaters he killed were the Talla-Des man-eater, the Mohan man-eater, the Thak man-eater, the Mukteshwar Man-eater and the Chowgarh tigress.
Thak and Corbett
* The Thak Man-eater The last substantial Man-eater Corbett shot-in 1938 ( aged 63 )
Thak and revealed
It is eventually revealed that Nabonidus ' " usurper " is actually his pet, a ( relatively ) intelligent and strong ape-like creature, Thak, who got the better of his master.
Thak and two
Finally, Conan and the other two men manage to get back into the house from the basement and Conan defeats Thak in combat.
Thak and one
Some of his hardest victories have come from fighting single opponents of inhuman strength: one such as Thak, the ape man from " Rogues in the House ", or the strangler Baal-Pteor in " Shadows in Zamboula ".
Thak and had
This turns out to be Thak, a primitive ( pre-human ) ape-like creature whom Nabonidus had captured as a cub and trained as a bodyguard and servant.
Thak and .
Goodyear ( O ' odham: Valin Thak ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
Paladine is also called Draco Paladin, E ' li, the Platinum Dragon, Dragonlord, Valiant Warrior, The Dragon's Lord, Bah ' mut ( strikingly similar to the Dungeons & Dragons platinum dragon Bahamut ), the Great Dragon, Skyblade, Platinum Father, and Thak the Hammer.
The Thakali are an ethnolinguistic group originated from the Thak Khola region of the Mustang District in the Dhaulagiri zone of Nepal.
The monster Conan faces in the Thoth-Amon scenes ( an ape-like creature in a red cloak ) does resemble the character Thak from the short story Rogues in the House, but this story does not include Howard's Thoth-Amon.
The upper part of the gorge is also called Thak Khola after the local Thakali people who became prosperous from trans-Himalayan trade.
The three observe Thak via a series of hidden periscopes and see that the creature has learned to imitate Nabonidus well enough to activate a toxic pollen trap which eliminates yet another party of assassins ( nationalistic agitators ) penetrating the villa.
man-eating and when
One of his nightmares concerns a flashback to when the young Talbot was a big-game hunter, and was nearly killed by a man-eating tiger.
He was killed when a mass of man-eating spiders covered his body and started eating him.
He is about to leave when the waiter stops him, warning him about the presence of a fierce man-eating tiger at Jingyang Ridge.
She can be dishonest ( she claimed during the school carnival that there was a giant man-eating chicken in her booth, when in reality it was a tall man eating chicken named Tim ) and sometimes does not care about Adam's feelings ( once she sold his comic collection with his knowledge ).
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* Null, man-eating sentients in the Downs-Lord Triptich books by John Whitbourn
The situation was saved by Heracles, who rested at Pherae on his way towards the man-eating Mares of Diomedes.
* Sophie: The orphaned protagonist of the story, who becomes an international heroine by causing the man-eating giants to be captured.
* Also under the Acromantula section, an extra 9 X's are added to the creature's classification, probably by Ron, since it is well known that he is afraid of spiders, and the Acromantula is a gigantic, man-eating spider.
In any case, he was exiled from Heaven and sent to be reincarnated on Earth, where by mishap he fell into a pig well and was reborn as a man-eating pig-monster known as Zhū Gāngliè ( the " strong-maned pig ").
The film's concept is thought to be based on a 1932 story called " Green Thoughts ", by John Collier, about a man-eating plant.
After the starving dogs attack some sheep on the fells, they are reported as ferocious man-eating monsters by a journalist.
Almost all shark experts feel that the danger presented by sharks has been exaggerated, and even the creator of the Jaws phenomenon, the late Peter Benchley, attempted to dispel the myth of sharks being man-eating monsters in the years before his death.
Just as Black Mask is about to gouge Maggie's eyes out and shove them down Selina's throat, Harley and Ivy arrive and defeat the Black Lantern by trapping him in the stomach of a man-eating plant.
" Sandworms ", sometimes referred to by other names specific to a given work of fiction, are a somewhat common semi-legendary beast that lurks under the desert sand not unlike a man-eating shark lurking beneath the waves of a body of water.
Several publications about and studies of the man-eating lions of Tsavo have been inspired by Patterson ’ s account.
The book describes attacks by man-eating lions on the builders of the Uganda Railway in Tsavo, Kenya in 1898 and how the lions were eventually killed by Patterson.
Several publications about and studies of the man-eating lions of Tsavo have been inspired by Patterson ’ s account.
Nevertheless, he was punished by the Jade Emperor, who had him struck 800 times with a rod and exiled to earth, where he was to be reincarnated as a terrible man-eating sand demon.
The Kaidu River, the place terrorized by Shā Wùjìng as a man-eating sand demon.
Corbett held the rank of colonel in the British Indian Army and was frequently called upon by the government of the United Provinces, now the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, to kill man-eating tigers and leopards that were harassing people in the nearby villages of the Garhwal and Kumaon region.
Theories for the " man-eating behavior " of lions have been reviewed by Kerbis Peterhans and Gnoske ( 2001 ) and Patterson ( 2004 ).
The story of Patterson and the man-eating lions was also an inspiration for the book Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman, published in 2012.
It was known in times past as the killer clam or man-eating clam, and reputable scientific and technical manuals once claimed that the great mollusc had caused deaths ; versions of the U. S. Navy Diving Manual even gave detailed instructions for releasing oneself from its grasp by severing the adductor muscles used to close its shell.
It is known by the locals living along this river that the great man-eating crocodile Gustave roams around the banks of the Ruzizi River and the northern shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Each island is populated by antagonistic " Earthlings ", such as phantom ice-cream trucks, aggressive packs of " nerds ", giant hamsters, Bogeymen, man-eating mailboxes, and police chickens.
In T. S. Eliot's poem " Gus: The Theatre Cat " ( which became one of the songs in Cats ), it is said that Gus once played a man-eating Tiger pursued by an Indian Colonel down a drain.
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Jim Corbett after killing the man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag in 1925
His interest in observing and studying wildlife resulted in a book about Jim Corbett, a big-game hunter and expert on man-eating tigers.
* Jim Corbett ( hunter ) ( Edward James Corbett, 1875 – 1955 ), British-Indian hunter of man-eating tigers and leopards, conservationist, naturalist, photographer and author
It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating tigers and leopards.
* Champawat Man-eater The story of the first man-eating Tiger shot by Corbett in 1907 ( aged 32 ).
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