Tigers are recorded to have executed a greater number of individuals than whatever other enormous feline, and tigers have been in charge of more human passings through direct assault than some other wild mammal. About 1,000 individuals were supposedly slaughtered every year in India amid the mid 1900s, with one individual tiger murdering 430 individuals in India. Tigers executed 129 individuals in the Sundarbans mangrove woodland from 1969–71. Unlike panthers and lions, man-eating tigers seldom enter human residences keeping in mind the end goal to procure prey.
The larger part of casualties are allegedly in the tiger's domain when the assault takes place. Additionally, tiger assaults for the most part happen amid sunlight hours, not at all like those conferred by panthers and lions. The Sundarbans are home to roughly 600 regal Bengal tigers who before present day times used to "frequently kill fifty or sixty individuals a year". In 2008, lost environment because of the Cyclone Sidr prompted an increment in the quantity of assaults on people in the Indian side of the Sunderbans, as tigers were traverse to the Indian side from Bangladesh.

A hypothesis elevated to clarify this recommends since tigers drink crisp water, the saltiness of the territory waters serve as a destabilizing element in the eating regimen and life of tigers of Sundarbans, keeping them in steady distress and making them to a great degree forceful. Different speculations incorporate the offering of their natural surroundings to people and the utilization of human cadavers amid floods.  

Man-eating lions have been recorded to effectively enter human towns around evening time and in addition amid the day to gain prey. This more noteworthy emphaticness ordinarily makes man-eating lions simpler to dispatch than tigers. Lions commonly get to be man-eaters for the same reasons as tigers: starvation, seniority and ailment, however as with tigers, some man-eaters were apparently in impeccable health. The lion's proclivity for man-eating has been methodicallly analyzed. American and Tanzanian researchers report that man-eating conduct in rustic ranges of Tanzania expanded extraordinarily from 1990 to 2005.

No less than 563 villagers were assaulted and numerous eaten over this period—a number far surpassing the more extremely popular "Tsavo" occurrences of a century prior. The episodes happened close Selous National Park in Rufiji District and in Lindi Province close to the Mozambican fringe. While the extension of villagers into shrubbery nation is one concern, the creators contend that preservation arrangement must moderate the risk in light of the fact that, for this situation, protection contributes straightforwardly to human passings. Cases in Lindi have been recorded where lions seize people from the focal point of significant towns. It is assessed that 550–700 individuals are assaulted by lions consist.