THE HY^NA DOG IO3 



playful, but would also invite one of its subsequent 

 cagemates (a striped hyaena) to share its gambols. 

 The hyaena was a surly beast, and usually responded 

 by a snarl. Another hunting-dog kept in recent 

 years at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and 

 observed by the writer, was very friendly and fond 

 of being noticed. A fourth example presented 

 to the London Zoological Gardens in 1900 frisked 

 about his cage like a huge terrier, and played 

 an absurd romping game with a piece of cloth; 

 unfortunately, the photograph then taken was not 

 clear enough for reproduction in this book. 



A pathetic story related of a hunting-dog which 

 lived many years ago in the London collection shows 

 a pleasing trait of character little to be expected 

 in such a bush-pirate as the present species. The 

 animal was one of a pair ; the dog, which had been 

 some months in the collection, died convulsed on 

 July 3rd, 1855 ; since some serum escaped from the 

 skull when under the hands of the taxidermist, death 

 was supposed to have been due to inflammation of 

 the brain. Deprived of her companion, the bitch 

 became inconsolable, and steadfastly refusing to take 

 food pined away, dying on the 13th. She lost in 

 ten days some ten to twelve pounds ; no morbid 

 lesion was discovered, and she thus died of a "broken 

 heart." Such intense affection for a partner con- 

 trasts sharply with the nierciless ferocity which these 

 animals exhibit towards their prey. The weight of 



