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Alexander von Humboldt: „Tiger familiarity with infants“, in: ders., Sämtliche Schriften digital, herausgegeben von Oliver Lubrich und Thomas Nehrlich, Universität Bern 2021. URL: <https://humboldt.unibe.ch/text/1821-Personal_Narrative_of-10-neu> [abgerufen am 25.04.2024].
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| Titel | Tiger familiarity with infants | ||||
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| Jahr | 1821 | ||||
| Ort | Leeds | ||||
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Nachweis in: The Leeds Intelligencer, and Yorkshire General Advertiser 69 (10. September 1821), [o. S.].
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
| Typografischer Befund | Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung. | ||||
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Tiger familiarity with infannts.—The tigers orjaguars, which are less dangerous for the cattle thanthe bats, come into the village at Atures, and devourthe pigs of the poor Indians. The missionary related to usa striking instance of the familiarity of these animalsupon the whole not ferocious. Some months before ourarrival, a jaguar, which was thought to be young,though of a large size, had wounded a child in playingwith him; I use confidently this expression, whichmay seem strange, having on the spot verified factswhich are not without interest in the history of the man-ners of animals. Two Indian children, a boy and agirl about eight and nine years of age, were seated onthe grass near the village of Atures, in the middle of asavannah which we had often traversed. At two o’clockin the afternoon, a jaguar issued from the forest, andapproached the children, bounding around them; some-times he hid himself in the high grass, sometimes hesprang forward, his back bent, his head hung down,in the manner of our cats. The little boy, ignorant ofhis danger, seemed to be sensible of it only when thejaguar with one of his paws gave him some blows onthe head; these blows, at first slight, became ruderand ruder; the claws of the jaguar wounded the child,and the blood flowed with violence. The little girl thentook a branch of a tree, struck the animal, and it fledfrom her. The Indians ran up at the cries of the chil-dren, and saw the jaguar, which retired bounding,without the least show of resistance. The little boywas brought to us, says M. Humboldt, who appearedlively and intelligent. The claw of the jaguar hadtaken away the skin from the lower part of the forehead,and there was a second scar at the top of the head.—Humboldt’s Personal Narrative.