KING OF BEASTS.
TREE-CLIMBING HABIT. WHAT PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL. United Service. LONDON, April 30. The question as to whether lions climb trees has long been debated. It has definitely been settled by the publication in the Times of a remarkable series of big-game " close-up " photographs taken in the wilds of Kenya and Tanganyika by Colonel M. Maxwell. In one photograph a lion is seen resting cm the branches of a tree. In another a lion is "actually walking along a bough. The pictures show that tho lions do not leap up on to the branches, but work their way up tho boughs. Experiments are shortly to be made at tho London Zoo to find out whether tigers also are tree climbers. High branches are to be placed in an outdoor cage with a platform on which meat will be placed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 13
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