YAS THE AGUARA WOLVES. 
are more those of jackals than of foxes, but their 
activity does not cease with daylight; they retire 
only to repose when the sun is strong. Several can 
be sufficiently tamed to accompany their masters to 
hunt in the forest, without however being able to 
undergo much fatigue; for, when they find the 
sport not to their liking, they return home to await 
the return of the sportsmen. In domesticity they 
are excessive thieves, and go to prowl in the forest. 
There is a particular and characteristic instinet 
about them to steal and secrete objects that attract 
their attention, without being excited by any well 
ascertained motive. . All subsist upon the usual 
food of the wild canines, but with the addition that 
they eat also fish, crabs, limpets, lizards, toads, ser- 
pents, and insects. They are in general silent and 
often dumb animals; the cry of some is seldom and 
but faintly heard in the night, and in domestication 
others learn a kind of barking. None appear to be 
gregarious, but several are occasionally encountered 
in families. Although in company with man, the 
domesticated will eagerly join in the chace of the 
jaguar, we have never heard that they are in the 
same state of hostility towards feline as are their 
congeners in Asia and Africa. The native Indians 
who have domestic dogs of European origin invari- 
ably use the Spanish term perro, and greatly pro- 
mote the increase of the breed in preference to their 
own, which they consider to be derived entirely, or 
with a cross, from the Aguaras of the woods; and 
by this name of Aguara it is plain, throughout al- 
