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The Living Animals of the World 



Photo by A. S. Rudland <t Sons. 



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, in- 

 cessantly restless, with an 

 overpowering 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 marvellous 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 driv- 

 ing 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 



Photo l>y Scholastic Photo. Co.] 



DINGO. 



The wild dog of Australia, It was found there by the first discoverers, but was probably 

 introduced from elsewhere 



