WOLVES HUNTING IN CONCERT. 
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the ridge, running backwards and forwards like a scotch 
collie dog. The larger wolf, as soon as he saw that the 
antelope were fully occupied in watching his companion, got 
up and came as hard as he could gallop to the nullah ; unfor- 
tunately he caught sight of us and bolted, and his companion 
seeing something was wrong, did the same. Now it is 
evident that these two wolves had regularly planned this 
attack ; one was to occupy the attention of the antelope while 
the other was to steal up the watercourse and dash into the 
midst of them. How did they communicate this to each 
other ? A problem in the history of animal life yet to be 
solved. 
At another time a brother officer of mine was stalking a 
herd of antelope which were feeding down a grassy valley, 
when suddenly a wolf got up before him, then another and 
another, until fourteen wolves rose out of the grass. They 
were extended right across the valley in the shape of a fish- 
ing net or jelly bag, as he described it, and were lying down 
wind, so that as soon as the herd had got well into the jelly 
bag," they would have rushed on the antelope and some 
must have fallen victims to their plan of attack. I once came 
upon a pack of wolves apparently holding a council of war ; 
after lolHjig about for some time they all rose up^ and 
separated, to all appearance having arranged their plans for 
the day. 
The perseverance of the wolf to attain its end is also 
very remarkable. One day when out hog hunting I saw 
a wolf following an antelope with a fawn at its heels ; it did 
not attempt to approach them, but merely kept them in view. 
This was early in the forenoon, and as we returned late in 
the afternoon near the same ground, there was the antelope 
