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THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 



Phttt by A. S. RudUnd & Sim 



WILD DOG 



These animals range from the plains of India and Burma to the Tibetan Plateau and Siberia. 

 They hunt in small packs, usually by day, and are -very destructive to game, but seldom attack 

 domestic animals 



THE WILD DOG OF AFRICA, 

 OR CAPE HUNTING-DOG 



This is a most interest- 

 ing creature, differing from 

 the true dogs in having 

 only four toes on both fore 

 and hind feet, and in being 

 spotted like a hyaena. 

 These dogs are the scourge 

 of African game, hunting 

 in packs. Long of limb 

 and swift of foot, incessantly 

 restless, with an overpower- 

 ing desire to snap and bite 

 from mere animal spirits, the 

 Cape wild dog, even when 

 in captivity and attached to 

 its master, is an intractable 

 beast. In its native state it 

 kills the farmers' cattle and sheep and the largest antelopes. A pack has been seen to kill and 

 devour to the last morsel a large buck in fifteen minutes. Drummond says : " It is a marvelous 

 sight to see a pack of them hunting, drawing cover after cover, their sharp bell-like note ringing 

 through the air, while a few of the fastest of their number take up their places along the 

 expected line of the run, the wind, the nature of the ground, and the habits of the game being 

 all taken into consideration with wonderful skill." The same writer says that he has seen 

 them dash into a herd of cattle feeding not a hundred yards from the house, drive out a 

 beast, disappear over a rising ground, kill it, and pick its bones before a horse could be saddled 



and ridden to the place. 



THE INDIAN WILD DOGS 



Mr. Rudyard Kipling's 

 stories of the " Dhole," the red 

 dogs of the Indian jungle, have 

 made the world familiar with 

 these ferocious and wonderfully 

 bold wild dogs. There is very 

 little doubt that they were found 

 in historic times in Asia Minor. 

 Possibly the surviving stories of 

 the " Gabriel hounds " and other 

 ghostly packs driving deer alone 

 in the German and Russian 

 forests, tales which remain even 

 in remote parts of England, are 

 a survival of the days when the 

 wild dogs lived in Europe. At 

 present there is one species of 

 ^^^ long-haired wild dog in West 



he -wild dog of Australia. I, -was found there by the first discoverers, but -was probably Central Siberia. ThcSC 



introduced from elsewhere 



DINGO 



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