The artist has made a sketch of a dramatic scene involving a horselike hornless rhinoceros. It shows the poor animal attacked by a long-tailed saber-toothed tiger. The great cat is pictured as attacking much as a modern tiger or lion sometimes attacks: gripping a hard hold with its forelegs, slashing at its victim’s vitals with raking strokes of its hind legs, and at the same time sinking its tremendous eyeteeth into the base of the throat like daggers, seeking the heart or the great blood vessels.
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