. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. 48 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD pale, the spots large, and the fur very long. At the March fur-sales of the present year, held at the stores of Sir Charles Lampson, there were Siberian leopard-skins as large as those of a small tiger. Leopards are essentially tree-living and nocturnal animals. Sleeping in trees or caves by day, they are seldom disturbed. They do an incredible amount of mischief among cattle, calves, sheep, and dogs, being especially fond of killing and eating the latter. They seize their prey by the throat, and cling with their claws unti
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. 48 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD pale, the spots large, and the fur very long. At the March fur-sales of the present year, held at the stores of Sir Charles Lampson, there were Siberian leopard-skins as large as those of a small tiger. Leopards are essentially tree-living and nocturnal animals. Sleeping in trees or caves by day, they are seldom disturbed. They do an incredible amount of mischief among cattle, calves, sheep, and dogs, being especially fond of killing and eating the latter. They seize their prey by the throat, and cling with their claws until they succeed in breaking the spine or in strangling the victim. The largest leopards are popularly called Panthers. In India they sometimes become man-eaters, and are always very dangerous. They have a habit of feeding on putrid flesh; this makes wounds inflicted by their teeth or claws liable to blood-poisoning. Nothing in the way of prey comes amiss to them, from a cow in the pasture to a fowl up at roost. " In every country," says Sir Samuel Baker, " the natives are unanimous in saying that the leopard is more dangerous than the lion or tiger. Wbere\'er I ha\-e been in Africa, the natives ha\'e declared that the_\' had no fear of a lion, provided they were not hunting, for it would not attack unpro- voked, but that a leopard was ne\-er to be trusted. I remember when a native ^a^€l^9R9HflBi^^'l bo\-, accompanied b}- his grown-up brother, was busil)' employed with others in firing the reeds on the op- posite bank of a small stream. Being. PhoK, I, J. W. McLellan-] [Highburf SNOW-LEOPARD, OR OUNCE This is a striking portrait of a 'very heautiful atiimal. Note the long bushy tail, thick ccat, and large eyes thirsty and hot, the boy stooped down to drink, when he was immediately seized by a leopard. His brother, with admirable aim, hurled his spear at the leopard while the boy was in his jaws. The point separated the vertebrae of the neck, and the- leopard fell
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