CHAPTER II. 



HUNTING — FISHING — WARS AND EXPEDITIONS. 



THE CARNIVORA MORE SKILFUL HUNTERS THAN THE 

 HERBIVORA — DIFFERENT METHODS OF HUNTING — 



HUNTING IN AMBUSH THE BAITED AMBUSH HUNTING 



IN THE DWELLING OR IN THE BURROW — COURSING — 

 STRUGGLES THAT TERMINATE THE HUNT — HUNTING 



WITH PROJECTILES PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES PUT 



TO PROFIT — METHODS FOR UTILISING THE CAPTURED 



GAME — WAR AND BRIGANDAGE EXPEDITIONS TO 



ACQUIRE SLAVES WARS OF THE ANTS. 



TJie Carnivora more skilful hunters than the Herbi- 

 vora. — The search for food has necessarily been the 

 cause of the earliest industries among animals. It is 

 easy to understand that the herbivora need little 

 ingenuity in seeking nourishment ; they are so 

 superior to their prey that they can obtain it and feed 

 on it by the sole fact of an organisation adapted to 

 its assimilation. They are, it is true, at the mercy of 

 circumstances over which they have no control, and 

 which lead to famine. The carnivora also may have 

 to suffer from the absence of prey, but even in the 

 most favourable seasons, and in the regions where the 

 animals on which they live abound, it is necessary to 

 them to develop a special activity to obtain posses- 

 sion of beings who are suspicious, prompt in ilight, 



