Chap. XYII. 
MEANS OF DEFENCE. 
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fearful scene ensued ; the lion’s mane saved his neck 
and head from being much injured, but the tiger at 
last succeeded in ripping up his belly, and in a few 
‘^minutes he was dead.”^^ The broad ruff round the 
throat and chin of the Canadian lynx {Felis Canadensis) 
is much longer in the male than in the female ; but 
whether it serves as a defence I do not know. Male 
seals are well known to fight desperately together, and 
the males of certain kinds {Otaria jubata)^^ have great 
manes, whilst the females have small ones or none. 
The male baboon of the Cape of Good Hope {Gynoce- 
johalus joorearius) has a much longer mane and larger 
canine teeth than the female ; and the mane probably 
serves as a protection, for on asking the keepers 
in the Zoological Gardens, without giving them any 
clue to my object, whether any of the monkeys espe- 
cially attacked each other by the nape of the neck, I 
was answered that this was not the case, excepting with 
the above baboon. In the Hamadryas baboon, Ehren- 
berg compares the mane of the adult male to that 
of a young lion, whilst in the young of both sexes and 
in the female the mane is almost absent. 
It appeared to me probable that the immense woolly 
mane of the male American bison, which reaches 
almost to the ground, and is much more developed 
in the males than in the females, served as a pro- 
tection to them in their terrible battles; but an ex- 
perienced hunter told Judge Caton that he had never 
observed anything which favoured this belief. The 
37 ‘The Times/ Nov. 10th, 1857. In regard to the Canada lynx, 
see Audubon and Bachman, ‘ Quadrupeds of N. America/ 1846, p. 139. 
^ Dr. Murie, on Otaria, ‘ Proc. Zoolog. Soc/ 1869, p. 109. Mr. J. A. 
Allen, in the paper above quoted (p. 75), doubts whether the hair, 
which is longer on the neck in the male than in the female, deserves to> 
be called a mane. 
