Natural history sketches among the carnivora: wild and domesticated1885 |
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... night attack by a troop of lions on the draught oxen . None of the celebrated lion killers , though armed with the best weapons of large calibre , have evinced more courage and coolness than the man who marched across Africa with a ...
... night attack by a troop of lions on the draught oxen . None of the celebrated lion killers , though armed with the best weapons of large calibre , have evinced more courage and coolness than the man who marched across Africa with a ...
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... night in the glare of the fires lighted at short intervals all round the net , and bewildered by the ceaseless din on every side , the imprisoned beast usually becomes quite cowed . Therefore it is not so dangerous a task as might be ...
... night in the glare of the fires lighted at short intervals all round the net , and bewildered by the ceaseless din on every side , the imprisoned beast usually becomes quite cowed . Therefore it is not so dangerous a task as might be ...
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... night was getting old , and the moonlight passing away from the glade , when , suddenly , a tiger bounded noiselessly from cover , and crouched right in front of the cow . Then followed a scene which must , of necessity , lose in the ...
... night was getting old , and the moonlight passing away from the glade , when , suddenly , a tiger bounded noiselessly from cover , and crouched right in front of the cow . Then followed a scene which must , of necessity , lose in the ...
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... nights since had feasted on human flesh . During the whole time her active movements had rendered a successful shot impossible , otherwise my friend would have endeavoured to save the life of the cow ; but this was impracticable if the ...
... nights since had feasted on human flesh . During the whole time her active movements had rendered a successful shot impossible , otherwise my friend would have endeavoured to save the life of the cow ; but this was impracticable if the ...
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... night . Livingstone quaintly says : " His courage resembles that of a turkey cock . He will bite if an animal is running away , but if the animal stands still so does he . ” When fighting with its own kind , the hyæna is said to have ...
... night . Livingstone quaintly says : " His courage resembles that of a turkey cock . He will bite if an animal is running away , but if the animal stands still so does he . ” When fighting with its own kind , the hyæna is said to have ...
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Page 7 - It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening. It was like what patients partially under the influence of chloroform describe, who see all the operation, but feel not the knife. ..This singular condition was not the result of any mental process. The shake annihilated fear, and allowed no sense of horror in looking round at the beast.
Page 7 - Mebalwe, who was trying to shoot him at a distance of ten or fifteen yards. His gun, a flint one, missed fire in both barrels ; the lion immediately left me, and, attacking Mebalwe, bit his thigh.
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Page 7 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
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Page 7 - Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head...
Page 196 - I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them, and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction between man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.