and hide it. Lions, hyenas, and others leave what 

 they cannot eat and return to it for their next 

 but tigers are more provident and more 

 and being able to climb trees they 

 very much more difficult to follow or waylay 

 by means of their kill. They are not big fellows, 

 rarely exceeding seven feet from nose to tip of tail 

 and 130 Ib. in weight ; but they are extraordinarily 

 active and strong, and it is difficult to believe until 

 one has seen the proof of it that they are able to climb 

 the bare trunk of a tree carrying a kill much bigger 

 and heavier than themselves, and hang it safely wedged 

 in some hidden fork out of reach of any other animal. 

 I have repeatedly seen the remains of their victims 

 in the forks of trees ; once it was part of a pig, but on 

 the other occasions the remains were of horned animals; 

 the pig was balanced in the fork ; the others were 

 hooked in by the heads and horns. 



A well-known hunter once told me an experience of 

 his illustrating the strength and habits of tigers. He 

 had shot a young giraffe and carried off as much as he 

 could put on his horse, and hid the rest ; but when 

 he returned next morning it had disappeared, and the 

 spoor of a full-grown tiger told him why. He 

 followed the drag mark up to the foot of a big tree 

 and found the remains of the carcase, fully 300 Ib. 

 in weight, in a fork more than twenty feet from the 

 ground. 



He left it there as a bait and returned again the 

 following morning on the chance of a shot ; but the 

 meat had once more been removed and on following 



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