Lion v. Tigrees: Some Previous Encounters The fatal encounter at the Zoological Gardens between a lion and a tigress, causing the death of the latter, is by no means the only tragedy that has been enacted within the palings of the Regent's Park Menagerie. A few of these cases from the criminal records of the Zoo's inmates were recalled to a representative of the "Observer" by Mr. R. Pocock, F.n.s., the Superintendent of the Gardens, when affording him some details of their fight. double cage tenanted by a puma and a jackal. The dividing door was accidentally left unfastened by one of the keepers, with the result that the puma pushed it open, and, springing on the jackal, settled it in ove round. As the puma was, three times the size of his victim, the jackal had not even. a sporting chance of victory.
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