THE TECHNIQUE OF HUNTING 



THE members of the dog family as well as those of the cat 

 family hunt. The members of the cat family stalk and 

 spring. The greyhound is equipped to take his prey through 

 high-speed sprinting under the sole guidance of the eye. 

 This technique is totally different from that of the jackal, 

 the coyote, the wolf, and the wild and domestic dog. The 

 greyhound is constructed and energized on the pattern of 

 the thoroughbred race horse. 



The pursuit of the pack of wild dogs, of wolves, of 

 coyotes, or of the fox is that of a chase; this technique is 

 based on the exhaustion of their prey. 



The advantage of the pack is that of rest, relay, and 

 strategy, on the one hand, and the natural tendency of the 

 pursued to circle back to their herd. This circling back of 

 the grass eater gives the dog family the chance to close in 

 upon the fatigued victim. 



The hunting dog, the wolf, the fox all hunt small animals 

 such as mice, rabbits, squirrels individually, but if they 

 hunt in packs or pairs the prey must supply a meal suffi- 

 cient to serve the pack. It would involve economic loss for a 

 pack to run down a rabbit. More energy would be used by 

 the "pack than is contained in the rabbit. 



Since evolution did not make a successful dog large 

 enough to outrun a zebra or an antelope, it fragmented the 

 theoretic dog into a number of smaller ones, namely, the 

 pack. Of all the foes of game in Africa, the hunting dogs are 

 preeminent. A lion returning from his kill will often be seen 

 near the grazing spot of antelopes, but the appearance of 

 wild dogs in a district is a signal to all antelopes to leave. 



The cat family smells, looks, listens, stalks, and springs. 

 Success or failure is instantaneous. In the cat family 

 evolution stakes everything on the spring. Since this out- 

 burst of energy is the opposite of the technique of pursuit 



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