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its way. It is not surprising", then, in view of 

 its habits, that gun, trap, and poison should be 

 employed against it. Yet, although given to 

 slaying farm stock in this way, it will, in the 

 jungle, return to a kill again and again in the 

 same way as the lion and tiger. The only 

 animals which we know to act differently are 

 the hunting-dogs, which, after eating a small 

 portion of each kill, commonly leave the rest 

 to the vultures and go after other prey. The 

 leopard is, as has been said in connection with 

 these animals in India, quite distinct from the 

 cheetah, or hunting-leopard, and the two are, 

 in fact, sworn foes. A fight between them 

 was once witnessed in the Government Game 

 Reserve on the Crocodile River. The cheetah 

 appears to have killed an antelope and was 

 eating it when a leopard came on the scene 

 and killed the cheetah in its turn. The African 

 cheetah seems to be even scarcer than its 

 Indian namesake and is rarely encountered by 

 sportsmen, though one was shot during one of 

 Lord Delamere's trips in Somaliland. 



HUNTING-DOGS AND HYENAS 



The hunting-dog, which ranges over Africa 

 from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope, 

 is at times even more destructive than the 

 leopard. These animals vary so much in 



