With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



This reminds me that lions were probably to be 

 found in Greece not so very long ago, as they still are 

 in Asia, though in very small numbers. These lions 

 show themselves capable of bearing quite high degrees 

 of cold, if they do not go so far north as their near kin 

 the tiger. The Siberian tiger, a recognised species of 

 the genus, lives in the midst of snow and ice, protected 

 against the coldest season by a thick winter coat. The 

 pair of splendid Siberian tigers in the Berlin Zoological 

 Gardens show by the way they thrive and breed that, 

 living as they do the whole year in the open air, they are 

 excellently suited in our climate, as is the corresponding 

 species of lion from North-Eastern Asia. The tempera- 

 ture goes down almost to freezing-point also on the 

 uplands of East Africa, and on cold nights the roar of 

 the lion resounds far and wide over the velt. 



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