Tigers at Bay

Abstract

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.”