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Page 83
I had no experience of poisons , nor had Ibbotson , but in a conversation with a doctor friend before leaving Naini Tal I had ... and that there was little use in my trying poison , as the records showed that the leopard throve on it .
I had no experience of poisons , nor had Ibbotson , but in a conversation with a doctor friend before leaving Naini Tal I had ... and that there was little use in my trying poison , as the records showed that the leopard throve on it .
Page 112
From the leopard's behaviour on the hill , and from the way he was now drinking , I was convinced he had poisoned himself , but not having had any previous experience of the effect of cyanide , I did not know how long the poison would ...
From the leopard's behaviour on the hill , and from the way he was now drinking , I was convinced he had poisoned himself , but not having had any previous experience of the effect of cyanide , I did not know how long the poison would ...
Page 181
It was not a rat snake , and as it had very pronounced poison fangs we concluded it was some variety of hoodless cobra . Cold - blooded creatures are not immune from snake poison , for I have seen a frog bitten by a cobra die in a few ...
It was not a rat snake , and as it had very pronounced poison fangs we concluded it was some variety of hoodless cobra . Cold - blooded creatures are not immune from snake poison , for I have seen a frog bitten by a cobra die in a few ...
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| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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