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have learned industry and courage from her example, she declines 

 all future care of them, being again engaged in bringing up a new 

 progeny. These animals require two or three years for their 

 growth, and live to the age of fifteen or twenty. 



The Jackal is larger and taller than the fox ; the head is 

 above of a fox-red color ; the upper lip is white on each side of 

 the nose, and the throat is of the same color ; outwardly, the ears 

 are fox-red, inwardly, white ; the neck and back are all over of a 



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Jackal. 



grey-yellow ; behind the neck and on the back is a large marking 

 of dark grey in the form of a lancet, and pointing to the tail; the 

 tail is straight and more bushy than that of the fox, and it is of a 

 greyish-yellow; it is eleven inches in length, and the body about 

 thirty. 



Some think that the jackal is an animal betwixt the dog and 

 the wolf; in familiarity it resembles the former, and in ferocity 

 the latter. Jackals in their natural state associate in packs; during 

 the night they hunt, in full cry, the gazelle and other animals of 

 the antelope tribe : they devour poultry and lambs, ravage the 

 streets of villages, and will even destroy unprotected childrer : when 



