The great woolly tiger is the lord of the Manchurian forest. It is the largest member of the cat family in the world today, There are records of specimens of this species running up to 600 Ib. in weight and measuring 14 ft, in total length (that is, from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail), which exceeds the record Indian tiger by about 2 ft. What this means may be understood when it is realized that the largest tigers one usually sees in menageries or zoological gardens are not more than 11 ft. in length and from 350 Ib. to 400 lb. in weight, Most of them are much less, yet they look large enough to make one feel glad that they are behind stout iron bars, Besides man, with his rifles, poisons and traps the tiger in the Manchurian forest has but one enemy, the wild dog. This is the northern representative of the dhole or red dog of the Dekkan in India, to avoid which Kipling says in "The Second Jungle Book" both Hathi, the elephant, and the tiger will turn aside, Like the dhole, it hunts in packs, clearing the country in which it hunts of all forms of game. When pàck of wild dogs invades a given district all the deer and wild pigs which they do not succeed in running down and capturing move out, This means that there are times when the wild dogs are hard pressed by hunger, At such times, if they chance upon the trail of a tiger, they do not hesitate to follow it. Coming up with the great feline, they immediately attack it, adopting what may be described as guerilla tactics. A running fight ensues, in which the wild dogs keep on rushing in and slashing at the tiger's flanks and hind -quarters with their terrible fangs. They take good care not to make a frontal attack, which would prove disastrous, for the tiger strikes with its fore-paws with the speed and precision of all cats, while one crunch of its powerful jaws would crush the life out et the largest wild dog. If the tiger turns and charges its tormentors, the dogs scatter, only
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