THE ESCAPED LEOPARD.
Sir,—You say in Monday's issue: l.nlike tho lion, tho leopard does not pick quarrels with human beings unless given provocation. Apart from the A>rican lion being in reality a comparatively cowardJy beast, the Indian panther is considered "'the most dangerous of big gamo in that, unlike the tiger, he is given to charging on sight without tho slightestprovocation, and thero is a poor chanco of recovery from the blood-poisoning that supervenes after a mauling. Ho is a finished stalker, moreover. Many sportsmen, armed with the latest in rifles, have been surprised and mauled even while examining the "pug-marks" close to where "spots" is known to be lying-up. That is why tho Mysore custom of sitting on the ground in a "wulli" instead of waiting for your beast in a "machan" up a tree is held to be the more sportsmanlike. Alive and in good health the'escaped animal would bo unlikely to favour (he "most enticing pieces of meat." Behind bars, she would have no alternative; returned to the wild, the instinct is to kill and rend and to eat while the flesh is still warm and blood drenched. Shikari.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19129, 22 September 1925, Page 7
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192THE ESCAPED LEOPARD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19129, 22 September 1925, Page 7
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