The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-10-18
Tiger. ana their Apps.lles.

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has often attracted attention. We have
seen cat pat dead mouse, or the
face OF q dog which was teazing her
and II is easy TO understand what q
tremendous blow a tiger could give in
the samo manner, but | believe it "a
DC a mistake to suppose that he strikes
down bis prey with his paw. lie
strikes in self.defense, and when
lighting, but not when seizIng his vie.
tim. have seen many carcasses oI
deer, cattle, buffalo and horses, which
have been killed by tigers, and they
all had the same appearance; four deer
holes at the back fthe neck two d
them on each side Of the cerfical YER.
tebre. made by the animal's teeth
no other mark OF coarse, If the d
ger had begun to feed on the body, il
was extensively lacerated. And If (as
sometimes in the case of buffalo). tho
prey had struggled much, and had sue.
ceeded in dragging the tiger few
yards. the chest and forelegs would
bear the impression of the claws and
the tremendous grip, but these, as far
as my experience goes, were exccp.
tional cases. t
It.is evident that the tiger, in seiz.
ing his prey, rushes on. to its back
grlpes the neck with his jaws as with
a vice, and, with his arms confining the
animals struggles, lies there upon it:
victim until it is suffocated. With q
human being know not how the
case is. A tiger has been seen to seizc
and carry off a man by the neck, OF
the arm, or thigh indiferently. In
the well known cases of Major Colnet
and Captain Fenwick, they were both
seized by the thigh and carried off. il
is said, on the animals back More
recently Captain Hill, Superintend-
ent of Police, Burma, was gripped by
the neck, and there held until the ar.
rival of his people rescued him from
his awful position.
La 1916, in Maubboon, near Madna
pore, | was ont after a tiger, on foot
and having wounded him severely
was searching for him in the Jungle
with a number of beaters. Three
times we. came upon him, and each
time he broke cover by charging thro
the mob of us. Once he struck man
on tho chest, knocking him over and
scratching him severely. Next time
be seized one of the beatcrs in his
jaws, by the thigh, gave him rapid
shake and passed on. Bat these are
all cases in which the animal was act.
ing in self defense or in retaliation
What have said above refers to it,
usual modc of capturing its food.
The averment in our natural his
tory books that the tiger disdains tc
touch carrion is quito untrue. The
same rhetoric is INDUCED in regard
ing the eagle, and is equally errone
Gus. The lion also, the king of beasts,
is, believe, as little scrupulous as any
other cat in this particular. l have
described how the tiger captures and
kills his prey. When dead if the body
lie convenient to his cover, hc lets il
remain; If it be too far out in the open
it is dragged further in toward the
jungle, and there left until toward
dawn. Sometimes the body is discm.
bowled after being removed little
way, and is then drawn away to some
hidden spot. A leopard has been seen
to disembowel goat, holding il by
the throat, lying on its back, uudcr-
meath the body, and ripping it open by
repeated kicks with its hind claws
Probably the tiger operates by the
same method. He appears to prefer q
rump steak, OR a round, to any other
portion. These are almost always the
first eaten, then the ribs, rarely the
forequarters, and never, within my
knowledge, the head.