CHAPTER VI 
THE TIGER (co7ttinued) 
There is no more delightful study than Natural 
History in its practical form, where the wild beasts 
and their ways are actually presented to the 
observer in their native lands, and he can examine 
their habits in their daily haunts, and watch their 
characters in their wild state instead of the cramped 
limits of zoological collections. At the same time 
we must confess that the animals of a menagerie 
afford admirable opportunities for photography, and 
are most instructive for a rudimentary preparation 
before we venture upon the distant jungles where 
they are to be found in their undisturbed seclusion. 
It is commonly supposed that wild animals that have 
never been attacked by fire-arms are not afraid of 
man, and that deer, antelopes, and various species 
which are extremely timid may be easily ap¬ 
proached by human beings, as the creatures have no 
fear of molestation. My experience does not sup¬ 
port this theory. Nearly all animals have some 
natural enemy, which keeps them on the alert, and 
renders them suspicious of all strange objects and 
