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Show UITE3 OP ANIMALS. Apart from all concomitant danger ot blood poisoning, tho severity ot the bltra of fletb-catlng animals Is out ot all proportion to tho weapons by which they aro Inflicted. Tho teeth, even ot tho largest carnlvorn, aro merely tho "apearheads;" but tho forco which "worka" theso Instrument It prodigious. prodi-gious. It tcemi as If for tho moment tho animal threw all Ita bodily energy Into tbo combination ot muscular action, ac-tion, which wo call a "Lite." In moat case the mero shock ot Impact, as tho animal hurls Itself on Its enemy It entirely en-tirely demoralising, or Infllcta physical Injury, A muttlcd rmutlff will hurl a man to tho ground In the effort to fallen III teeth In his throat or shoulder. Then, tho driving and crushing forco of tho Jan muscles It aatonlihlng. Tho snapping snap-ping power ot an alligator' Jaws la moro or lets Intelljglble. Tbey ar long, and furnished with a row of pointed tcoth from end to end. Ilut the Jaw of a lion, Icopird, tiger, otter, forrot, or baboon are short, and tbe long and pointed teeth are few. Tot each or their aprclei has a biting power which In proportion to It lo 1 almost al-most Incredible. Sir Samuel Ilakcr, who had a long and varied acquaintance with the bites of tho carnlvora, noticed that the tiger tuually seized an Indian natlvo by tbe shoulder, and with one Jaw on one aldo and the other on tbe other, bit clean through chest and back. "Tho fatal wound waa the bite, which through back and cheit, penetrated to tbt lungs." Europeans aro killed by the tlger'a bile, aa well aa lacerated by tbo claw. In nearly all cotea the blto penetrates to tbo lungs. Thla kind of wound It characteristic ot tbo attacks ot many ot tbe felldae. Scarcely any bird re-covert re-covert from a cat's blto for the' tamo reason. Tbo canine teeth aro almost Inntantly driven through tho lung, under un-der tbo wing. The cheetah, which hot a very small mouth, always bites through tho black buck' throat. Tbo leopard, when selling smaller animals, such as dogs, cruibet the head; when attacking men It alms at biting through the lungs. |
