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01-26-2015, 01:47 PM( This post was last modified: 01-26-2015, 03:02 PM by peter )
A FIGHT BETWEEN TIGERS IN DARRANG, ASSAM - A LETTER IN THE JBNHS
A few miles from Darrang (Assam), two large male tigers met and fought. From the date given in the letter (the night of January 30-31, not sure about the year, but I thought it was 1930), one would think the fight happened in the breeding season.
The tiger killed was a big, old male. His lower jaw was wrenched off, his fore-arms were chewed off at the elbows and his abdomen had been torn open. His external genitals had been removed and most of his tail had been bitten off. Apart from that, the three claws of the left middle foot were missing: