MIL1TAR Y TACTICS, OF ANIMALS 5 1 



jungle, while others drove in antelopes feeding in 

 the open ground beyond. But wolves, as a rule, 

 hunt alone or in families, except when pressed by 

 hunger. Wild dogs, however, habitually combine 

 to hunt ; and Baldwin, in his ' Game of Bengal,' 

 mentions a case of four or five martens hunting 

 a fawn of the ' muntjac,' or barking deer. But in 

 real military organisation and strategy, monkeys 

 are far ahead of all other animals, and notably the 

 different kinds of baboon. Mansfield Parkins gives 

 an excellent account of the tactics of the dog-faced 

 Hamadryads, that lived in large colonies in the cracks in 

 the cliffs of the Abyssinian Mountains. These creatures 

 used occasionally to plan a foraging expedition into 

 the plain below, and the order of attack was most 

 carefully organised, the old males marching in front 

 and on the flanks, with a few to close up the rear 

 and keep the rest in order. They had a code of 

 signals, halting or advancing according to the barks 

 of the scouts. When they reached the corn-fields 

 the main body plundered while the old males 

 watched on all sides, but took nothing for them- 

 selves. The others stowed the corn in their cheek- 

 pouches and under their armpits. They are also 

 said to dig wells with their hands, and work in 

 relays. The Gelada baboons sometimes have battles 

 with the Hamadryads, especially when the two 



