New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-10
Tigers and Their Appetltes.

The enormous forearm of tigers has often at
traeted attention. We have seen a cat nat dead
mouse, or the face of dog which was teazing her
and it is easy to understand what d tremendous
blow tiger could give in the same manner; but
believe it to he mistake to suppose that he
strikes down his prey with his paw He strikes iu
self defense, and when fighting, but not when
Selling his victim / have seen many carcasses of
deer cattle, buflaloes, and horses, which have
sheen killed by tigers and they all had the same
apnearance-four deep holes at the back of the
neck, 1.-TWO Of them in each side the cervival
yertebTR,) made by the animals incisor teeth; no
other mark.
Of course, if the tiger had begun to feed on the
body, it was extensively lacerated. And il las
sometimes in the case of buffalol the prey had
struggled much, and had succeeded in dragging
the tiger few yards, the chest and forelegs
would bear the impression of the claws and the
tremendous grippe, but these, as far as my expert.
enee goes, were exceptional cases.
1t is evident tie tiger, in Selling his prey rushes
on to its back, grpes the neck with his Jaws as
with vice, and, with his arms combining the
animals struggle, lies there upon his victim unit
it is suttocated. With human being, know not
how the case is. A tiger has been seen to seize
and carry off a man by the neck, or the arm, or
thigh, indiferently.
In the l-known cases of Major Colnett and
Capt. FenWick, they were both seized by the
thigh, and carried off, it is said, on the animals
back. More recently, Capt Hill, superintend-
ent of police in Burma, was griped by the neck,
and there held until the arrival of his people res
cued MN from MS aWtuI posltlon. IN 1916, in
Maubboom near Midnapore, / was out after q
tiger, on foot, and having wounded him severely
was searching for him in the jungle, with a mum.
Der of beaters. Three times we came upon him
and each time he broke cover by charging through
the mob of us. Once he struck a man on the
chest, knocking him over, and scratching him Sc
verely. Next time he seized one of the beaters in
his jaws, by the thigh, gave him rapid shake,
and passed on.
But these are all cases in which the animal
was acting in selfdefense, in retaliation. What
have said above refers to its usual mode of cap
turing its food
The ayerment in our natural history, books, |
that the tiger dsdains to touch carbon is quite
untrue. The same rhetoric is INDUCED in regard. |
ing the eagle, and is equally erroneous The lion,
also, the king of beasts is, believe as little
scrapnlous as any other cat in this particular. / |
have described how the tiger captures and kills |
MS prey. When dead, if the body lie convenient /
. ms covert he lets it remain if it be too far out
q the epen, il is dragged further in towards the /
jingle, and there left until towards dawn.
sometimes the body is disemboWeled after being
emoYed a little way, and is then drawn away to /
ONE hidden spot. A leopard has been seen to T.
goat, holding it by the throat lying l
n Its back, underneath the body, and ripping it Il
pen by repeated kicks withits hind claws Prob
bly, the tiger operates by the same method. He
ppears to prefer rump steak, ora round, to any
Their portion. These are almost always the first +
art eaten then the ribs rarely the fore quarters,
nd never, within my knowledge, the head.