| Show PICKS FLAWS IN THE STORY naturalist comments Cor on tate tale of python devouring a tiger A thrilling narrative which was published rl antly by a well weil known ald ti ld low how the author was waa h based ased int inta a tree by a tiger and there found a python awaiting him the tiger began to lo climb the tree and while tho tha aython was engaged mth ath a parrot the author crawled along a I 1 sloping branch when tho the python returned to the place where it had left the writer it found in his stead the tiger which according to the story was almost a full grown maretter ma reater neater it then describes how the he python seized and strangled sti angled the tiger and after crushing its body into a pulp was in ill the he act of swallowing it when tile tha author having descended the tree and regained ills his lide shot it ft the story is authenticated by the authors sworn statement but according to dr blandford of the zoological society and other eminent naturalists natura lists tigers in the first place do not climb hiees secondly do not ex ast 1st in ceylon and thirdly when immature do not attack attach human beings unless they aie wounded in addition pythons according to dr gunther are unable to swallow an thing larger thana half balf blown sheep |
