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be seen to work together. It is also well known that 

 hounds drafted from some kennels will pack well 

 together while others from certain packs will not. 

 Miss Serrell writes that, whereas her famous working 

 terrier, ' Sharper,' would attack any strange terrier 

 when the latter first joined the pack, he would never 

 attack his own sons. 



In the jackal we are a step nearer to the primitive 

 community life of the dog tribe, and we see the 

 instincts of the pack to combine at night for support 

 and defence. This we may add to the instances 

 recorded above of the correctness of observation 

 which underlies so many fables. The combination 

 for a common end is, as Mr. Darwin says, a mark that 

 social animals are of a higher level of intelligence 

 than solitary ones. 



Everyone who has hunted jackals has learned 

 two other facts about them : that they are exceedingly 

 tenacious of life, and that they feign death in the 

 most convincing fashion. I have seen a bobbery 

 pack run into a jackal and apparently kill him. 

 The dogs have worried the body, though they 

 have not torn him, for a jackal's skin is most extra- 

 ordinarily tough. If the jackal be picked up he is to 

 all appearance dead. All his muscles are flaccid. 

 Fling him down, and he falls in a lifeless heap ; now 



