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that it is well developed has often been proved by 

 the winding of sportsmen sitting up on a platform 

 over a kill. I have had such personal experience 

 three times. There is no evidence, however, of a 

 tiger hunting on the trail of its prey with nose to 

 the scent like the wolf, or any of the dog family; 

 and it is true, also, that very largely the tiger and 

 others of the cat family lie in wait for their vic- 

 tims, or stalk upon them at familiar haunts or 

 feeding ground. Once as I hunted seladang in 

 Siam, I glimpsed the stern of a tiger plunging 

 into the jungle at my side; and found the well- 

 defined squarish pugs of a big male that had lain 

 in ambush perhaps for the very animal whose 

 tracks I followed. I had passed within ten feet 

 of the tiger, which evidently was not looking for 

 two-legged game. 



On attack the tiger seizes by the throat with its 

 powerful jaws and by the shoulders with its claw- 

 armored fore paw. After a swift rush it kills 

 with this grip by twisting its victim's neck until 

 broken, and it is so strong that it can almost always 

 bring down the gaur cow, though often beaten off 

 by the bull whose neck is too massive and whose 

 shoulders are too powerful to be wrenched. At 

 such times the tiger resorts to subterfuge by crawl- 

 ing head on, to invite a rush which it as repeatedly 

 evades, awaiting its chance to emasculate the bull 



