. The royal tiger of Bengal, his life and death. Tigers; Hunting. 10 TEE ROYAL TIGEM OF BENGAL. and kept out of tlie way, and are consequently not liable to wear or be blunted by contact with the ground. "When the tiger wishes he can, by au exertion of the flexor profundus, exsert the claws and use them as formidable weapons. Owen ("Comp. Anat. and Physiol.," p. 69, 70, vol. iii.), says, "The toes of the hind foot are retracted in a dififerent direction, viz., directly upon, not by the sides of the second phalanges, and the elastic ligaments are differently ;
. The royal tiger of Bengal, his life and death. Tigers; Hunting. 10 TEE ROYAL TIGEM OF BENGAL. and kept out of tlie way, and are consequently not liable to wear or be blunted by contact with the ground. "When the tiger wishes he can, by au exertion of the flexor profundus, exsert the claws and use them as formidable weapons. Owen ("Comp. Anat. and Physiol.," p. 69, 70, vol. iii.), says, "The toes of the hind foot are retracted in a dififerent direction, viz., directly upon, not by the sides of the second phalanges, and the elastic ligaments are differently ; This, if it be the case in the lion and tiger and larger felidse, is not so in ocelots and other small cats, in which the arrangement is very like that of the fore foot. It may be that, as climbers, they require Pio. CLAW OF HIND FOOT. as great strength and retractility in the hind as in the fore claws. The skeletoB-ofJihe tiger_is remarkable for, the perfection of its mechanisin^__IhgJ^one9_ are-^Mn- pact, dense, and strong. The trunk-is-comparatively. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fayrer, Joseph, Sir, 1824-1907. London, J. & A. Churchill
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