...Besides, admitting that I pay this time, how can I do so on another occasion? When kings have tasted money, they are like tigers who have tasted flesh, they devour everything...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...“The Bengal tigers in India, it is well known, if they once taste human flesh, prefer it to all other, and they are well known to the natives, who term them men-eaters...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...It is used to catch lions and tigers, as well as the great Grizzly Bears of the Rocky Mountains...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Deadfalls and Snares」
...In the daytime theylie close in the thick brush, exactly as tigers do in India, but ifnot molested for a period of days, they become bold and attack gamein open view...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
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For the purpose of working out these figures I applied to all mysporting friends for measurements of their largest skulls, with aview to settling the question about tigers exceeding eleven feet...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...I am afraid I cannot speak definitely on the subject,although I have on several occasions seen tigers kill oxen and ponies...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The controversyis as strong on this point as on the maximum size of tigers...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
..."It is fortunate for these dwellers in the backwoods that but a smallpercentage of tigers are man-eaters, perhaps not five per cent...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...There has been some controversy about the way in which tigers killtheir prey...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...The stories of their attacking and killing tigers must be receivedwith caution, though it is certain they will harass both tigers andleopards...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
..." They have run wild in parts of Oude and Rohilcund, and can maintain themselves in a region infested by tigers...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...For descriptionsof methods of baiting for and catching such animals as lions,leopards, tigers, elephants, etc...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Youhave seen many animals in the zoo or in a circus—elephants, bears,lions, tigers, leopards, and many others...
Prince Sarath Ghosh 「The Wonders of the Jungle」
...Lions and tigers are proverbially fond of music...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
..."There were five tigers killed by the party, besides onebear killed, and another wounded; a wolf, a hyæna, a panther,a leopard, and some immense rock and cobra capella snakes...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...It is said the liveslost by these tigers amounted to about three hundred personsin one year, within the range of seven villages; andthe destruction of cattle, sheep, and goats, was said to beimmense...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
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