Natural Telepathy 



else that a solitary wolf may be so in touch with 

 his pack-mates that he knows not only where they 

 are, but also, in a general way, what they are doing. 



In comparison with timber-wolves the caribou 

 is rather a witless brute; but he, too, has his 

 "uncanny" moods, and one who patiently follows 

 him, with deeper interest in his anima than in his 

 antlered head, finds him frequently doing some 

 odd or puzzling thing which may indicate a per- 

 ception more subtle than that of his dull eyes or 

 keen ears or almost perfect nose. Here is one 

 example of Megaleep's peculiar way: 



I was trailing a herd of caribou one winter day 

 on the barrens (treeless plains or bogs) of the 

 Renous River in New Brunswick. For hours I 

 had followed through alternate thick timber and 

 open bog without alarming or even seeing my 

 game. The animals were plainly on the move, 

 perhaps changing their feeding-ground ; and when 

 Megaleep begins to wander no man can say where 

 he will go, or where stop, or what he is likely to 

 do next. Once, after trailing him eight or ten 

 miles, twice jumping him, I met him head-on, 

 coming briskly back in his own tracks, as if to see 

 what was following him. From the trail I read 

 that there were a dozen animals in the herd, and 

 that one poor wounded brute lagged continually 

 behind the others. He was going on three legs; 



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