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Title: Sport on the Nilgiris and in Wynaad
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fletcher, F. W. F
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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re killing is not sport: the realcharm lies in the feeling that you have pitted yourreason against the quarrys instinct, and won the equalfight; that your trophy is the reward of your own skill.This feeling is the very essence of true sport, and itmakes success doubly sweet. Obviously, the attainment of knowledge, however 28o THE NILGIRIS slight, of the habits of wild animals, and of skill, howeverlimited, in tracking them, presupposes a lengthy-residence in a game country, and, of course, non cuivishomini contingit adire Corinthum. But even theveriest globe-trotting gunner would derive infinitelymore enjoyment from his shooting trip if he allowedhis success to hinge more on his own hard work andless on an unlimited expenditure of cash in the makingof elaborate preparations. His bag might be smaller,but every trophy would gain in value a thousandfold. THE BEAR Scientific name.—Melursus ursinus.Tamil name.—Karadi.Kanarese name.—Karadi.Kurumba name.—Karadi.Nayaka name.—Karadi.
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THE BEAR There is no truce with Adam-zad,The Bear that walks like a man.—Kipling. The sloth bear, Melursus ursinus, which has avery wide distribution extending from Ceylon to theHimalayas, is the only one inhabiting South India.Till recently he was known as Ursus labiatus, but nowhe occupies a genus by himself, his isolation beingdue to the fact that he has only four incisors in theupper jaw, against six in Ursus. Colloquially, he iscalled the Indian or sloth bear. The former name,though vague, is appropriate enough in view of hisoccurrence all over the Peninsula ; but if the naturalistwho first bestowed on him the cognomen of ■ sloth had ever had occasion to take to his heels withMelursus after him, he would I think have christenedhim differently! He usually travels at a jerky walk,but he also has at command a wobbly gallop whichenables him to cover the ground much faster than aman can run. Owing to his peculiar structure andgreat muscular development, this gallop is an extra-ord

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