ASIATIC WILD DOGS. 



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■wild dogs are in the habit of giving tongue while hunting. This is, however, 

 denied both by Hamilton and Blanford ; but it is athrnied that these animals are 

 in the habit of howling at night. 



There does not appear to be any authenticated instance of the Indian wild dog 

 attacking human beings. In marked contrast to the wolf and the jackal, it is, if 

 not absolutely untamable, exceedingly difficult to render domesticated in any 

 degree ; this of itself being a proof that it has nothing to do with the ancestry of 

 domestic dogs. The young in India are born in the winter, althougli this is 

 I^robably not the case in the higher Himalaya and Tibet. The number of cubs in 

 a litter is usually from two to four, but six or more have been observed. In the 

 Himalaya, near Simla, a breeding-place was discovered where it appeared that 

 several females bred in company. 



By many writers tlie wild dog of the countries to the eastward 



of the Bay of Bengal is regarded as inseparable from the Indian 



form. Mr. Blanford, however, takes the opposite view, and considers that the 



MALAY WILD DOG () Uat. size). 



