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食人猛獸真面目

by Marcus Maurice
Gordon Buchanan is on a mission to battle blood-thirsty beasts.

There's a serial killer lurking around Chitwan National Park in Nepal and her name is Nangara Pothi. Nicknamed The Claw, this deadly tigress has killed at least 10 people since 2008. Gordon Buchanan, host of Man-Eater Manhunt on National Geographic Channel (NGC), travels to Nepal to investigate. He hopes to unlock the myths and mysteries of the man-eating tigress. 
　　Buchanan's mission is to know and understand man-eaters—animals that have killed or even eaten humans. He wonders if the reasons for the attacks on humans are due to the predators' loss of natural space. Buchanan is determined to put himself directly in the path to find out the answers. In Tanzania, Buchanan hooks up with a local researcher to try and learn why lions that normallydon't eat people now have a taste for human flesh. Buchanan finds out that most of the farmers that were killed by the lions had been sleeping in makeshift shelters while trying to protect theirharvests. The only way to get to the bottom of the mystery, Buchanan thinks, is to spend a night in one of the shelters.
　　Lions and tigers are dangerous, but leopards are renowned as elusive and resourcefulpredators. In Mumbai, India, one of the most populous cities in the world, 57 people have been killed by leopards, and Buchanan wants to know why. He sets up thermal camera traps and visits the city's suburbs at night. By doing so, Buchanan feels he gets a handle on what the opportunisticpredators known for their diverse diets do at night. Dig into the leopards' secrets and more on NGC's Man-Eater Manhunt.

食人猛獸真面目
高登‧布坎南接受對抗嗜殺成性野獸的任務
　　有一個連環殺手潛伏在尼泊爾奇旺國家公園附近，她名叫南加拉‧博提。這隻綽號名為『爪子』的致命母老虎自 2008 年起已經將至少 10 人攻擊致死。國家地理頻道《食人猛獸真面目》節目的主持人高登‧布坎南前往尼泊爾調查。他希望能解開這隻食人母老虎的迷思與奧秘。
　　布坎南的任務是要知道並了解食人動物──就是那些會殺害人或甚至把人吃掉的動物。他想知道這些針對人類的攻擊是否因這些捕食者失去大自然空間所致。布坎南決心把自己直接放在動物捕食的路徑上，藉此找出答案。在坦尚尼亞，布坎南與一位當地的研究者共事，試圖要得知為什麼通常不吃人的獅子現在卻性喜吃人肉。布坎南發現，大部分遭獅子咬死的農夫都是那些為了保護收成而一直睡在臨時簡陋住所的人。布坎南認為要釐清這個謎團最終原因的唯一方式，就是要花一個晚上的時間睡在其中一個簡陋住所內。
　　獅子和老虎都很危險，但豹卻以難以捉摸且足智多謀而出名。在全球人口最多城市之一的印度孟買，57 個人被豹咬死，布坎南想要知道為什麼。他架設起熱能攝影機陷阱，並在夜晚探訪了該市的近郊處。布坎南覺得他這樣做便可了解這種以其多樣化飲食而出名的機會主義掠食者會有什麼作為。觀賞國家地理頻道的《食人猛獸真面目》節目以探討豹的秘密及其他更多的資訊。