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IN NATURE for Feb. 2, p. 275, a doubt is expressed as to whether a tiger when in danger will ever take to a tree. An anecdote related in vol. 2, p. 112 of De Beauvoir's “Voyage Round the World,” seems to settle the question:—“Attacked and conquered by the buffalo, the tiger bounded some thirty feet into the air into a cocoa-nut tree. Some twenty natives were in an elevated position amongst the branches of this tree; in one and the same moment they let themselves fall like ripe fruit from a tree that is shaken.”
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D., G. Tigers at Bay. Nature 3, 348 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003348d0
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