338 Wild Beasts 



This term lobo is indiscriminately applied in Spanish 

 America to creatures that bear little resemblance to one 

 another. The guara of Brazil is known under that name, 

 an inoffensive, vegetable-eating animal, in every respect 

 unlike the wolf in character and habits, and, according to 

 Dr. Lund, specifically distinct from it in having the second 

 and third vertebrae of its neck characteristically elongated. 

 Emmanuel Liais, however (" Climats, Gdologie, Faune du 

 Br^sil "), states the chief contrasts between those creatures 

 in question succintly, as follows : " Au point de vue du 

 regime alintentaire, les deux espkes du genre Cants les plus 

 ^loigtUes sont le loup commun d' Europe, animal firoce et 

 sanguinaire, et la plus carnivore de toutes les esphes du 

 genre, et I'Aguara ou Guara du Brisil — Canis Jubatus 

 de Demarist, appeli d Minas-Geraes tris-improprement Lobo 

 {jiotn portugais du Loup), et dkrit par la plupart des ouv- 

 rages de mammologie comme le loup du Br^sil. C'est ce- 

 pendent le mains carnivore de tous les chiens connus, et sa 

 nourriture prifMe consiste en substances v/g^tales." 



As has been said, the wolf does not reach its highest 

 development in hot countries. Wolves may be dangerous 

 and destructive within low latitudes, as is the case both in 

 America and Asia, but it will be found that when this 

 occurs their range is generally confined to elevated regions 

 in those provinces. Major H. Bevan ("Thirty Years in 

 India") states that "wolves are amongst the most noxious 

 tenants of the jungles around Nagpore, and they annually 

 destroy many children ; but they do not commit such rav- 

 ages as in northern India." The same is true of the "giant 

 wolf," Lupus Gigas^ that Townsend and other naturalists 



