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| Gee, E.P. | |
| Lion v. Tiger | |
| 1956 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (54): 171-173 | |
An interesting point was raised, also, in the details concerning lions versus tigers in combat. Col. Kesri Singh is of the opinion that the lion was ousted from its habitat in India by the tiger, but this is not confirmed by same naturalists. R. I. Pocock, for example, in his Fauna of British India, Mammalia, Vol. I, pp. 220-221 gives emphasis to the slaughter of lions in India by sportsmen and others, particularly by British army officers during the nineteenth century. This shooting out of lions, he maintains, was the real cause of their India. while the managed to survive. |
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