The Man-Eaters

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1. Which word means "eating human flesh?" anthropomorphism anthropophagous anthropophilic anthropophobia

2. According to Desmond Morris, author of "The Naked Ape" and many other books about human biology, there are only three species that regularly prey on humans. Which of the following does he NOT mention? tigers sharks crocodiles wolves

3. Okay, let's turn our attention first to the sharks. Which of the following are NOT generally accepted as being man-eaters? bull shark great white shark mako shark oceanic whitetip shark

4. Which of these activities puts you at the highest risk of being eaten by a shark? deep-sea diving fishing surfing wading

5. Just to put things in perspective, about 20 people are eaten by sharks every year. People, on the other hand, eat how many sharks? more than 200 thousand more than 20 million more than 2 million more than 200 million

6. Enough about sharks, already! Let's turn our attention to the crocodiles. Which of the following crocodilians has NEVER been known to eat a human? American alligator black caiman Mindoro crocodile mugger crocodile

7. Which of the great man-eaters hunts humans in the lands where we originally evolved? saltwater crocodile Nile crocodile Bengal tiger great white shark

8. Of single individual crocodiles, the most famous man-eater of modern times was one believed to have eaten 200 people during his 60 year career. What was his name? Horace Gustave Franklin Eomund

9. Well, that fellow wins the prize for solo man-eating, but what about team effort? Where did the incident allegedly occur in 1945, involving the most humans eaten by multiple crocodiles? Penang Island, Malaya Ramree Island, Burma Labuan Island, Brunei Poro Island, Phillipines

10. What can we say about the story of the man who was ambushed and devoured by an American alligator, on a golf course in South Carolina, so fast that his friends didn't even see? It is true. It is not only true, but a fairly common occurence. It has been embellished, but is based on a true story. It is a complete fabrication, with not even a grain of truth.

11. We move on to the tigers. The most frequent occurances of tigers preying on humans is in an area called the Sundurbans. This area is on the border between which countries? Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma) India and Bangladesh India and Nepal Thailand and Myanmar (Burma)

12. What unusual technique has been used by people in the Sundurbans to avoid tiger attacks? feeding cattle to the tigers so they are too full to hunt using specially-trained dogs to detect and flush out tigers building high security fences around villages and along trails wearing a mask on the back of their heads to avoid attacks from behind

13. Besides the Bengal tiger, what other tiger subspecies has been known to hunt humans in recent times? Bali tiger Malayan tiger Siberian tiger Sumatran tiger

14. Besides the big three, there are a variety of beasts that have eaten humans on rare occasions: bears, feral dogs, cougars, and many others. How would you describe the anthropophagous behaviour of the reticulated python? a major problem in some areas a dismal failure non-existant about equivalent to that of the bull shark

15. This (infrequent) man-eater made the news in 2001, when Phil Bronstein, editor of the Los Angeles Chronicle and then-husband of actress Sharon Stone, was attacked at the Los Angeles Zoo. Galapagos tortoise Komodo dragon killer whale wolverine