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and killed by an official appointed to reside at the village as assistant collector, and his 
skull was sent to me by Mr. Alfred Sharpe. A photograph of it is given on page 81. 
Just prior to its well-merited death it had killed seven women and one man. It will be 
noticed that the teeth are in good condition and not worn out and broken, as is thought 
to be the case in all confirmed man-eating lions and tigers. 
Lions do a great deal of their hunting in company and, apparently, sometimes on a 
prearranged plan. Thus part of the band may lie in ambush while the remainder appears 
in the open and drives the 
game past the hidden comrades. 
On such occasions the lions 
do roar before their meal, roar 
deliberately, with the idea of 
unsettling their intended prey 
and causing it to run hither 
and thither in a panic-stricken 
state. All unheeding, the 
terrified animals, no longer 
stopping to sniff the air, pass 
in front of some hidden honess 
or young lion and are at once 
pounced on. 
Just as the lion can at a 
pinch chmb up a sufficiently 
broad and sloping tree-trunk 
or scale a crumbling cliff, so 
the leopard, deemed arboreal 
in its habits, is as terrestrial 
as the hon in open country. 
The leopard, unlike the jaguar, 
has no great liking for pursuing 
his prey in the branches of 
the trees. He gets the reputa- 
tion for leading a much more 
arboreal life than he really 
does—even in forests—from his 
habit of lying concealed on the 
horizontal branches of trees 
overhanging some path or the 
approach to water. From this 
Photograph by] 2 [Percy Ashenden, Cape Town. post of vantage he leaps on 
LION, : 
his unsuspecting enemy—the 
human being, antelope, baboon, pig, or buffalo-calf that passes beneath. In open country, 
however, the leopard usually lies in long grass, waiting in ambush for antelopes. In 
this position the long tail is often curled upward, and its heavily-furred tip waves to 
and fro above the grass stems. Antelopes are inquisitive to the last degree. In spite 
of any scent of leopard which may be in the air they advance and advance with 
outstretched head and quivering limbs until—for one of them—it is too late; the three 
or four bounds of the leopard have landed him on his victim. 
At a little distance the markings of a leopard (like those of a zebra) are quite 
indistinguishable. He appears to be a brown animal, and is only (as a rule) picked 
out from the surroundings by the light and shade of the sunlight. Sometimes I 
