CHAP. III. GENEROSITY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



(88.) Generosity is not unknown even among 

 jackals, for we may surely give that epithet to the 

 assistance which they will occasionally afford to a bro- 

 ther in distress. A Mr. Kinlock, well known at the 

 time in India as an excellent sportsman, having one 

 morning chased a jackal which entered a thick jungle, 

 found himself under the necessity of calling off his 

 dogs in consequence of an immense herd of jackals 

 which had suddenly collected on hearing the cries of 

 their brother, which the hounds were worrying. They 

 were so numerous, that not only the dogs were defeated, 

 but the jackals absolutely rushed out of the cover in 

 pursuit of them ; and when Mr. Kinlock and his party 

 rode up to whip them off, their horses were bitten, and it 

 was not without difficulty a retreat was effected. The 

 pack of hounds was found to have suffered so severely 

 as not to be able to take the field for many weeks after. 

 A hunted jackal seems to be impressed with the instinct, 

 that, if he only get in the vicinity of his brethren, he 

 is certain of their help ; and so surely do they rely 

 upon this, that they often shape their course in that 

 direction where they know other jackals are to be found. 

 (89.) The marine tribes are no less distinguished 

 for parental affection than 

 the land quadrupeds. The 

 females of the Arctic wal- 

 rus (fig. I?.)* if attacked 

 on the ice, always first se- 

 cure the safety of their 

 young, by casting them into 

 the sea ; and then, return- 

 ing to the enemy, they 

 give vent to their rage. 

 If, however, they lose 

 their lives in the defence 

 of their offspring, the latter 

 will not be induced to quit the inanimate remains.* 



* Wood's Zool. vol i. p. 328. 



