What Eats People: The Complete List, Revised: Part 8

Here's one of the most notorious internet photos of recent years. The animal is a Nile crocodile; the arm belongs to a Chinese zookeeper. The croc was forced to give it back.

In researching for Deadly Kingdom, I went to great lengths to find out what animal eats the most people. It's not as simple a question as it seems, for a lot of reasons—the most important being that dead men tell no tales. The answer also changes with the times. Large-scale predation on people in the modern world always ...