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The Living Animals of the World 



Phoioby L. Medland, F.Z S., North FinchUy. 



TIGER CUB, 



Note the great developmeDt of the legs 

 and paws. 



any lion which may take to eating men that prevents 

 these animals as a rule from becoming the formidable pests 

 which man-eating tigers appear to be in parts of India. But 

 man-eating lions in Africa are not invariably old animals. 

 One which killed thirty-seven human beings in 1887, on the 

 Majili Ki\'er, to the north-west of the Victoria Falls of the 

 Zambesi, was, when at last he was killed, found to be an 

 animal in the prime of life; whilst the celebrated man- 

 eaters of the Tsavo Iliver, in East Africa, were also apparently 

 strong, healthy animals. These two man-eating lions caused 

 such consternation amongst the Indian workmen on the 

 Uganda Railway that the work of construction was con- 

 siderably retarded, the helpless coolies refusing to remain 

 any longer in a country where they were liable to be 

 eaten on any night by a man-eating lion. Both these lions 

 were at last shot by one of the engineers on the railway 

 (JMr. J. II. Patterson), but not before they had killed and 

 devoured twenty-eight Indian coolies and an unknown 

 number of native Africans. 



THE TIGEP.. 



Tigers are the " type animal " of Asia. They are 

 found nowhere else. Lions were inhabitants, even in historic times, of Europe, and are 

 still common on the Euphrates and in parts of Persia, just as they were when the Assyrian 

 kings shot them with arrows from their hunting-chariots. They survived in Greece far later 

 than the days when story says that Hercules slew the Nemean lion in the Peloponnesus, for the 

 baggage-animals of Xerxes' 

 army of invasion were attacked 

 by lions near IMount Athos. 

 But the tiger never comes, 

 and never did come in historic 

 times, nearer to Europe than 

 the Caucasian side of the 

 Caspian Sea. On the other 

 hand, they range very far 

 north. All our tiger-lore is 

 Indian. There is scarcely 

 a story of tigers to be found 

 in English books of sport 

 which deals with the animal 

 north of the line of the 

 Himalaya. These Chinese 

 northern tigers and the 

 Siberian tigers are far larger 

 than those of India. They 

 have long woolly coats, in 

 order to resist the cold. 

 Their skins are brought to 



London in hundreds every naio oy vaientim d: sons, Ltd.] [Dundee. 



year to the great fur-sales. a royal tiger. 



But the animals them- This is an old Bengal Tiger, with the smooth, short coat grown in that hot climate. 



