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WHITE wolves are rare in 
this country, 
and not com- 
mon in their 
native country. In some 
parts, when a white 
wolf has been seen, the 
peasantry weave all sorts 
of superstitious legends 
about him. The larger of 
the two specimens repro- 
duced on this page was 
presented to Mr. H. C. 
Brooke by the Hon. 
Walter Rothschild, to 
whose museum at Tring 
he will return on his death. 
The smaller (a female) is 
their joint property, and 
is kept at Welling as a 
house-pet, where we saw 
her living in perfect amity 
with a hairless dog, several 
Wolves. 
Photographs by Hutchinson & Co. 
FEMALE RUSSIAN WOLF. 
valuable cats, and some guinea-pigs. She 
is an excellent guard, and has learnt to 
bark almost like a dog, but only does so 
When there is a reason for it. Hopes 
are entertained that by mating her with 
the larger specimen, white cubs may be 
obtained. When female wolves are kept 
clean and fed on good sound food they are 
quite free from the strong smell one notices 
at menageries, where these animals usually 
MALE WHITE 
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get the coarsest scraps; 
at most, when rainy 
weather is impending, is 
a faint wolfish odour 
perceptible. 
To Mr. Brook also 
belongs the other wolf 
portrayed on this page. 
Though by many con- 
sidered almost untamable, 
the wolf is really very 
susceptible to domestica- 
tion; this one was not 
brought up as a pet, but 
she is extremely affec- 
tionate, and her master 
leads her about every- 
where. She plays lke 
a puppy, will pull off 
her master’s gloves, un- 
lace his boots, take a 
handkerchief from his 
pocket, eat sugar from 
WOLF. 
FEMALE WHITE WOLF. 
his mouth, and so on. She is now rather 
dangerous with strange dogs, having in her 
youth often been annoyed and frightened 
by street curs, which now she does not 
forget; but she will readily play with any 
dog who exhibits a friendly spint or with 
whom she has been out once or twice. 
She is an excellent mother, and is the dam — 
of the wolf-dingo hybrid owned by the Hon. 
Walter Rothschild. 
