...rarely does so. There is also much exaggeration concerning size and weight. A tiger that measures ten feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail is a big one, and above the average, which is about nine and a half feet. Of course there are exceptions,...

...did not take kindly to the water, it entirely on land. examination it was found to be three feet two from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, along lungs were of a dark red colour, collapsed, containing «.« «tr, and scarcely floating in water,...