His thirst insane, the tiger lapped up water from the leaky fountain where the flower women filled their buckets, and then put his nose into the face of a sleeping child who had been left, wrapped in blankets, under the pancake stand.

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Earlier models, which tried to use water flow and plant growth to explain how the tiger bush got its stripes, failed to account for all but the simplest patterns.

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Another tiger, named Sam, was pacing inside a small enclosure, regularly jumping into a pool of water to refresh herself.

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