Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History

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Identifier: animallifeworldo119021903lond (find matches)
Title: Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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tern Australia. A fine lioness hadbeen suffering from a persistent nervousailment. It was decided to place a tiger withher for company.At first it seemedas if the animalswould agree allright, as theypurred and rub-bed each othersheads throughthe bars withgreat friendliness.But afterwardsthe lioness beganto get snappy,and dealt thetiger some blowsthat would havebroken the headof any otherbeast, and whenshe gave him asharp bite heseized the lionessand bit herthrough thethroat, laceratingthe neck in afrightful manner.He dragged herround the cage,and once threwher right overhis back. Thelioness showedgreat pluck, andfought with all her strength, but the tiger washer master. Eventually the tiger was induced todrop his antagonist and crawl into an innercage. The victor bore few marks of theencounter, although he received some terribleblows, each one, according to an eye-witness,sufficient to smash the head of a man. HaUan hour after the tiger had been driven off thelioness died. 178 LIZARDS
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Written and illustrated with photographs byW. Saville- KeNT, F.L.S.,P.Z.S. STUJUP-TAIL, SPINOUK, AND IEILLED LIZAfiDS. THE reptile house at the Zoo represents beyond question one of the most attractivedepartments of that perennially popular institution. That prominent increment ofthe mystic and the uncanny that has been interwoven from the earliest ages withreptilian organisms—from the old serpent downwards—invest these creatures with anever-failing element of interest and attraction to the wonder-worshipping public. Havewe not among the reptiles, moreover, in the unwieldy crocodiles and their slim relationsthe diversely modified lizards the direct descendants of the terrible dragons and monstersaurians that lorded it over creation, and that flew or swam or even walked erect, leavingtheir footprints on the sands of time, long before puny man appeared upon earthsshifting stage. Here, surely then, there is to be found abundant recherche manna for themind of the philosopher as well a

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