Author's note:
The true tiger is not found in West Africa. It is likely, as the artist has indicated, that the tiger of the Anansi stories is a leopard. In her introduction to Walter Jeckyll's Jamaican Song and Story, Alice Werner wrote in 1907: 'All over South Africa, leopards are called "tigers" by Dutch, English, and Germans, just as hyenas are called "wolves" , and bustards "peacocks" ... "Tiger" is used in the same sense in German Kamerun, and probably elsewhere in West Africa.'
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