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The Living Animals of the World 



The Wild Dog of Africa, 

 OK Cape Huntixo-dog. 



This is a most interest- 

 ing creature, differing from 

 the true dogs in having 

 only four toes on both fc5re 

 and hind feet, and in being 

 spotted like a hyajna. 

 These dogs are the scourge 

 of African game, hunting 

 in packs. Long of limb 

 and swift of foot, iii- 



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and bite from mere animal 

 spirits, the Cape wild dog, 

 even wlion in captivity and 

 attached to 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 de\our to the last morsel a large buck in fifteen minutes. 

 Drummond says : '• It is a mar\'ellous sight to see a pack of them hunting, drawing cover 

 after cover, their shaii) bell-like note ringinsf 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 groTind, and the haljits of the game being all taken into consideration with wonderful 

 skill." The same writer says tliat 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. 



WILD DOG. 



Tliese animals lantre from the plMns of India and Burma to the Tibetan Plateau and Silieiia 

 Tljey Inmt in small paclis, usiially liy day, and are very dcstractive to gan 

 domestic animals. 



, but seldom attack 



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Tljc wild d<.g of Australia. It was found there liy Ltic first discoverers, but was jirobalily 

 introduced from elsewhere 



The Indian Wild Dogs. 



Mr. Eudyard Kipling's 

 stories of the "Dhole," the red 

 dogs of the Indian jungle, have 

 made the world familiar witli 

 these ferocious and wonderfully 

 liolil wild dogs. There is very 

 little doubt that they were 

 ftiuiid in historic times in Asia 

 ."Minor. Possiltly the survi\ ing 

 stories of the "Gabriel hounds" 

 and other ghostly packs driv- 

 ing deer alone in the German 

 and Kussian forests, tales which 

 remain even in remote parts of 

 I'm gland, are a survival of the 

 days when the wild dogs lived 

 in Europe. At present there 

 is one species of long-haired 



