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The Living Animals of the World 



Plioto ly L. MvUand, F.Z.S.'] 



[North Finchley. 



STRIPED 



This is the hysena of Northern Africa, Palestine, and India, 



of its jaws; but they will 

 leave bones unbroken which 

 a hyaena will crack in halves. 

 Its powers of digestion are 

 unlimited. It will swallow 

 and digest a knuckle-bone 

 without giving it a crunch, 

 and will crack the thigh-bone 

 of a buffalo to obtain the 

 marrow, and swallow either 

 end immediately after. . . . 

 [ remember that once a 

 hysena, came into our tent at 

 night. But this was merely 

 a friendly reconnaissance, to 

 see if any delicacy, such as 

 our shoes, or a saddle, or 

 anything that smelt of leather, 

 were lying about. It was 

 bright moonlight, and the air 

 was calm. There was nothing 

 to disturb the stillness. I 



was awakened from sleep by a light touch on my sleeve, and my attention was directed by 

 my wife to some object that had just quitted our tent. I took my rifle from beneath the 

 mat on which I lay, and, after waiting for a few minutes sitting up in bed, saw a large 

 form standing in the doorway preparatory to entering. Presently it walked in cautiously, and 

 immediately fell dead, with a bullet between its eyes. It proved to be a very large hyaena, 

 an old and experienced depredator, as it bore countless scars of encounters with other strong 

 biters of its race." 



The STRIPED HYAENA is found in India as well as in Africa. In portions of Abyssinia these 

 animals are so numerous that on the Nile tributaries Sir Samuel Baker used to hear them 

 cracking the bones after supper every 

 night just as they had been thrown 

 by the Arabs within a few feet of the 

 deserted table. In this way they are 

 useful scavengers. 



THE AARD-WOLF. 



This small African hyaena-like 

 creature stands in a family by itself. 

 The animal is like a small striped 

 hyaena, with a pointed muzzle, longer 

 ears, and a kind of mane. It is 

 common all through South and East 

 Africa, where it lives on carrion, white 

 ants, and lambs and kids. It has not 

 the strong jaws and teeth of the dog or 

 hyaena family. The colonists commonly 

 hunt and kill it with fox-terriers. 



Photo by A. S. Rudland <i 



AARD-WOLF. 



The aard-wolf stands in a family by itself. It is allied to the hyaenas, but is a faj 

 feebler animal. 



