Carnivorous Animals: Man-Eaters, Stoat, Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916, Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident, Tiger Attack, Beast of G Vaudan

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Man-eaters, Stoat, Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, Sankebetsu brown bear incident, Tiger attack, Beast of Gevaudan, Thak man-eater, Tsavo maneaters, Kirov wolf attacks, Wolves of Ashta, Great Black-backed Gull, Leopard of the Yellagiri Hills, Sloth bear of Mysore, Tiger of Pilibhit, Tigers of Chowgarh, Kali River goonch attacks, Tigress of Jowlagiri, Tiger of Segur, Leopard of Gummalapur, Gustave, Leopard of the Central Provinces, Tiger of Mundachipallam, Predatory fish, Leopard of Rudraprayag, Wolves of Turku, Wolf of Gysinge, Wolf of Ansbach, Champawat Tiger, Wolves of Perigord, Malawi terror beast, Wolves of Hazaribagh, Wolves of Paris, Leopard of Panar. Excerpt: The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 were a series of shark attacks along the coast of New Jersey between July 1 and July 12, 1916, in which four people were killed and one injured. Since 1916, scholars have debated which shark species was responsible and the number of animals involved, with the great white shark and the bull shark most frequently being blamed. The attacks occurred during a deadly summer heat wave and polio epidemic in the northeastern United States that drove thousands of people to the seaside resorts of the Jersey Shore. Shark attacks on the Atlantic Coast of the United States outside the semitropical states of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas were rare, but scholars believe that the increased presence of sharks and humans in the water led to the attacks in 1916. Local and national reaction to the attacks involved a wave of panic that led to shark hunts aimed at eradicating the population of man-eating sharks and protecting the economies of New Jersey's seaside communities. Resort towns enclosed their public beaches with steel nets to protect swimmers. Scientific knowledge about sharks before 1916 was based on conjecture and...