3 Review(s)

The Call of the Man-EaterChronicling an unusual partnership between a man-eating tiger and a jackal that calls out to thefeline when it spies its next victim, ‘The Call of the Man-Eater’ is easily one of Anderson’s bestknownstories. Throughout this section there are also Anderson’s evocative and immensely insightfulprofiles of the various creatures that inhabit the jungles of India: the wild dog, the wild boar, thesloth bear, the hyena, the tiger, the panther and the elephant.The Black Panther of SivanipalliIn this, Anderson’s iconic story, the author stalks a jet-black panther in a dark cave, and has anunfortunate encounter with an angry swarm of bees. And, in another tale in this section, Andersonstruggles to kill a man-eating panther with unusual habits in the hills of Yellagiri.