On the prowl for man-eating tigers

By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent

JAMBI, Sumatra, Indonesia – The tiger had ripped apart the body of 19-year-old Imam, and his remains were spread about 40 feet from his ransacked forest shelter. All that was left of his severed head was the bare skull. The tiger had eaten the rest it.

The body of Imam's 51-year-old father, Suyut, lay closer to the shelter and was largely intact.

"It was shocking," said Nurazman, who heads the Forestry Department's local conservation office and was the first to the scene. "We collected the body parts as quickly as possible, because we knew the tiger was still there. We could feel it."