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eighty-two inter-communicating nerve fibers between the 

 medulla of the adrenal gland and the celiac ganglia and 

 plexuses in the lion and an equal number in the tiger. In no 

 other animal the whale, porpoise, elephant, buffalo, wolf, 

 caribou, zebra, or thoroughbred horse among the 3,734 

 animals that we have dissected have we found the size 

 and complexity of this mechanism to be comparable to 

 that found in the lion and the tiger. 



Another point of interest is that most of the wild animals 

 have formidable enemies and, therefore, have built up 

 various types of muscular mechanisms for running away, 

 but the lion and the tiger, having no enemies, have devel- 

 oped no mechanism for running away. Their equipment is 

 for attack only. It is inconceivable that these two animals 

 that possess only an explosive energy mechanism could be 

 adapted to a long pursuit. 



Let us see if there is a difference between the energy 

 equipment of the lion and the tiger. 



Of the fifteen lions that we studied, nine were bred in 

 captivity and six were collected in the wild state. This gives 

 us the opportunity of comparing the brain-heart-thyroid- 

 adrenal-sympathetic system of a lion bred in captivity with 

 that of a lion in the wild state. With the exception of the 

 lions taken in the wild state, all the lions that we studied, 

 whether bred in a semiwild state, as in one from Mr. 

 William Randolph Hearst's lion farm in California, or in a 

 zoo, showed goiter. This fact alone throws light upon the 

 effect of captivity. 



Prince, a lion from the Philadelphia Zoo, was born in 

 captivity in 1917. The Bengal tiger, an adult middle-aged 

 male, was the largest tiger in America. It was jungle-bred, 

 imported when young, and, aside from an injury to an eye, 

 was in excellent condition, although, like practically all 

 animals in captivity, dissection revealed a goiter. Prince's 

 goiter weighed 2 pounds. 



On the basis of their energy-controlling organs, we can 

 throw light on the personalities and mode of attack of the 



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