Based on a true story of an incident between a Russian poacher and an Amur tiger. After a close-quarters scuffle between the two over a boar, the wounded but living tiger followed the man's scent to his cabin. Once there the cat tore apart his belongings, dragged the mattress out the front door, and waited two days for the poacher to return. It was then that the poacher met a grizzly end, finally having his body dragged into the bush and eaten.
I'm interested in this story as an entry point to “revenge" as an evolutionarily adaptive trait. This story can be understood on an immediate narrative level where the viewer anthropomorphizes the tiger’s motives. And then it can be understood again from a functional, biological lens—removing threats from one’s environment is advantageous.
