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TUB LOG. 



Of the same genus is the JACKAL, of Asia and Africa (Fig. 1384), 

 which seems to have given over the wilds of Europe to its cousin, 

 the wolf. The jackal has the same propensity for making prey of 

 pigs, lambs, kids, and poultry that distinguishes the wolf, and he is 

 also, like the wolf, susceptible to taming, being easily taught, if 

 taken when young, to follow persons around and to render himself 

 exceedingly useful in domestic life. 



The Hunting Dog (Fig. 1385), a wild animal of the Cape of 

 Good Hope, where it is sometimes known as the "hyena dog," or 



Fig. 1383— The Dingo. 



" painted hyena," is of a reddish or yellowish brown, spotted with 

 black and white. The Dutch colonists style it the " wilde hunde," 

 or " wild dog." It makes war on foxes, although classed by many nat- 

 uralists in the same family with the fox. The hunting dog has been, 

 though rarely, domesticated, and in such rare cases he shows him- 

 self capable of vindictiveness to those to whom he takes a dislike, 

 and of great faithfulness to those he likes. This animal organizes in 

 packs and starts on a hunt for the fox with all the deliberation and 



