THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
theory that this animal is a comparatively recent immigrant 
from the north into southern India and the Malay islands. 
This distribution also shows that the tiger is a creature of the 
mountains and forests rather than of open plains, and is used 
to a cold climate; in fact, it is far more worried by heat than is 
its African brother, and loves to wallow in cool, shallow water. 
Copyright, N Y. Zoological Sueiety. Sanborn, Phot. 
A RAJAH OF THE JUNGLES. 
The habits of the tiger — its nocturnal hunting, its prey, its 
family life, its behavior when attacked and relation to mankind 
Haunts —are practically those of the lion. Both cats are 
and Habits. accustomed to their own narrow, almost undisputed 
way, are moved to exertion mainly by hunger and jealousy, 
are suspicious of everything strange and inclined to fear what- 
ever they do not understand, are capable of terrific force, yet 
are dull save in the line of their predatory instincts, and change 
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