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The Living Animals of the World 



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STRlrKII IIV.EX.V. 

 This is the lijtena of Xcitlioni Afrien, l':Llestine, and Inili; 



[Xorth I-i,tchh, 



of its jaws; l)ut tliey will 

 leave bones unbroken wbicli 

 a hyu'iia will crack in halves. 

 Its pcnvers of digestion are 

 unlimited. It will swallow 

 and digest a kiuickle-bone 

 witliiiut giving it a cruncli, 

 and will crack the thigh-bone 

 (if a buft'alo to olitain the 

 niaiidw. and swallow either 

 end innnediatel}^ after. . . . 

 I remember that once a 

 liv;ena came into our tent at 

 night. Ijut this was merely 

 a friendly reconnaissance, tcj 

 see if any delicacy, such as 

 our shoes, or a saddle, or 

 any tiling that smelt of leather, 

 were lying about. It was 

 bright moonlight, and the air 

 was calm. There was nothing 

 to disturb the stillness. I 

 was awakened freni ^leep by a light tnuch on my sleeve, and my attention was directed by 

 my wife to some object that had just ijuitted our tent. I ti«jk my rifle from beneath the 

 mat on which I lay, and. after waiting for a few minutes sitting up in bed, saw a large 

 firm standing in the d<ior\vay jireparatiiry to entiuiiig. Presently it walk'ed in cautiously, and 

 immediately fell dead, with a bullet between its eyes. It proved to be a very large hyoena, 

 an old and experienced dejiredator, as it bore countless scars of encounters with other strong 

 biters of its race." 



Tlie Strited Hy^N.a. is found in India as well as in Africa. In portions of Abyssinia these 

 animals are so numerous that on the Nile tributaries Sir Samuel Baker used to hear them 

 cracking tlie liones after suppi.'r everv 

 niglit just as they had been thrown 

 by the Arabs witliin a fi^w feet (if the 

 deserted table. In this way they aie 

 useful sea\engers. 



• 

 The Aard-wolf. 



This small .Vfiican livfena-like 

 creature stands in a family liy itself. 

 The animal is like a small striped 

 hyosna, with a peinted muzzle, longer 

 ears, and a kind (jf mane. It is 

 common all thnnigh South and East 

 Africa, where it lives on cairion, white 

 ants, and lambs and kids. It has n(.it 

 the strong jaws and teeth of the dog or 

 hyaena fiimily. The colonists commonly 

 hunt and kill it with fox-terriers. 



Photo bv A. H. RvllauJ J 



A.VP.D-WOI.r. 



Tb(; ;i.Lrd-\vu]f ^t;ln(ls in a faiiii]}' Ity itself. It is jLlliod to the liya^nas, Imt is a far 

 feebler auijiial. 



