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AARD WOLF. 



dog when it has the benefit of similar treatment. It has been known to accompany its 

 master as familiarly as any dog, and to recognize him with airs of joy after a lengthened 

 absence. The potency which some persons exert over animal natures is most remarkable, 

 It may be that such persons pour much love upon all things, and therefore upon the 

 animals with which they come in contact. So love, creating love, which is the highest gift 

 of God, and the sum of his divine attributes, calls forth in animals the highest attributes 

 of their nature, and through this higher quality, develops their intellectual capacities. 



AARD WOLF. Pfoteles cristatus. 



CIVETS. 



IT is generally the case with the greater divisions of animals that there exist certain 

 intermediate forms of animal life, which seem to be rather higher than the one division, 

 and lower than the other, being, in fact, transitional forms between the higher and the lower 

 groups. Thus, the Colugo, or Flying Lemur, is an intermediate form between the monkey 

 and bats, and the AARD WOLF is intermediate between the hyenas and the Civets, 

 belonging, however, more to the latter than the former group of animals. It is much 

 smaller than the hyenas, but larger than the Civets and genetts, and, indeed, has 

 indifferently been called a hyena, a jackal, or a Civet. 



The form of the Aard Wolf much resembles that of the hyenas, the fore-quarters 

 being powerful and well developed, and the hinder quarters low and sloping.* The 



