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dog when it has the benefit of similar treatment. It has been known to accompany its 
master as familiarly as any dog, and to recognise him with airs of joy after a lengthened 
absence. The potency which some persons exert over animal natures is most remarkable. 
It may be that such persons pour much love upon all things, and therefore upon the 
animals with which they come in contact. So love, creating love-—which is the highest gift 
of God, and the sum of his divine attributes,—calls forth in animals the highest attributes 
of their nature, and, through this higher quality, develops their intellectual capacities. 
AARD WOLF.—Proteles cristdtus. 
CIVETS. 
I is generally the case with the greater divisions of animals that there exist certain 
intermediate forms of animal.life, which seem to be rather higher than the one division, 
and lower than the other, being, in fact, transitional forms between the higher and the lower 
groups. Thus, the Colugo, or Flying Lemur, is an intermediate form between the monkey 
and bats, and the AaRD WOLF is intermediate between the hyenas and the Civets, 
belonging, however, more to the latter than the former group of animals. It is much 
smaller than the hyenas, but larger than the Civets and genetts, and, indeed, has 
indifferently been called a hyzena, a jackal, or a Civet. 
The form of the Aard Wolf much resembles that of the hyenas, the fore-quarters 
being powerful and well developed, and the hinder quarters low and sloping. The 
