THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
or Russia have more than once been attacked, pulled down, and 
killed by these beasts, whose boldness, endurance, and persist- 
ence in pursuit when crazed by famine, are almost boundless. 
Nevertheless more persons have been scared than hurt; and 
that mainly by the terrific howling which multiplies itself by its 
rapid, echoing volume, until it seems as though a dozen wolves 
were clamoring in concert. 
GREAT GRAY OR TIMBER WOLF. 
It is in winter, mainly, when the larger animals must be 
depended upon, that the wolves form themselves into “packs” 
and assist one another. To this class of animals 
hunting is truly “the chase,” for their method is, 
having found their quarry (in which the good nose for a trail and 
the keen hearing assist them), to keep it in sight and run it 
down. The endurance of their gallop is astonishing, yet most 
deer, antelopes, and horses can outspeed and outswim them, and 
would usually escape a single wolf. Therefore two, or some- 
times many, unite, and by relieving one another, cutting across 
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Hunting 
in Packs. 
