92 THE LIVING ANIMALS OF THE WORLD 
Tue Wi1Lp Doc oF Africa, 
or Care HuNTING-DOG 
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This is a most interest- 
ing creature, differing from 
the true dogs in having 
only four toes on both fore 
and hind feet, and in being 
spotted like a hyena. 
These dogs are the scourge 
of African game, hunting 
in packs. Long of limb 
and swift of foot, incessantly 
restless, with an overpower- 
ing desire to snap and bite 
from mere animal spirits, the 
WILD DOG . Cape wild dog, even when 
These animals range from the plains of India and Burma to the Tibetan Plateau and Siberia. in captivity and attached to 
natant packs, usually by day, and are very destructive 10 game, but seldom attack its master, is an intractable 
beast. In its native state it 
kills the farmers’ cattle and sheep and the largest antelopes. A pack has been seen to kill and 
devour to the last morsel a large buck in fifteen minutes. Drummond says: « It is a marvelous 
sight to see a pack of them hunting, drawing cover after cover, their sharp bell-like note ringing 
through the air, while a few of the fastest of their number take up their places along the 
expected line of the run, the wind, the nature of the ground, and the habits of the game being 
all taken into consideration with wonderful skill.” The same writer says that he has seen 
them dash into a herd of cattle feeding not a hundred yards from the house, drive out a 
beast, disappear over a rising ground, kill it, and pick its bones before a horse could be saddled 
and ridden to the place. 
Photo by A. S, Rudland & Sins 
THE Inpian Witp Docs 
Mr. Rudyard  Kipling’s 
stories of the “ Dhole,” the red 
dogs of the Indian jungle, have 
made the world familiar with | 
these ferocious and wonderfully 
bold wild dogs. There is very 
little doubt that they were found 
in historic times in Asia Minor. 
Possibly the surviving stories of 
the “ Gabriel hounds” and other 
ghostly packs driving deer alone 
in the German and Russian 
forests, tales which remain even 
in remote parts of England, are 
a survival of the days when the 
ty wild dogs lived in Europe. At 
Phan Sciasis Poussin eset there is one species of 
DINGO long-haired wild dog in West 
The wild dog of Australia, It was found there by the first discoverers, but was probably Central Siberia. These dogs 
introduced from elsewhere 
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