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and that it cannot be tamed; but in this be is wrong. For 
Cuvier relates the history of a Wolf that lived in the mena- 
gerie of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, which, after being reared 
by a person who bad to leave to proceed abroad, displayed 
more passionate affection for its master than the most devoted 
Dog could have shown. Aiid this is not a single, isolated ex- 
ample. When it is taken sufficiently young, to our knowledge 
it can be trained to bunt for its master’s benefit. 
Among the varieties of the common Wolf, it is necessary to 
mention the Black Wolf, which more particularly inhabits the 
North of Europe, and is only exceptionally found in France ; 
the Black Wolves of the northern Himalayas; the Dusky Wolf, 
and the Prairie Wolf, which lives in troops on the immense 
plains of North America; the Bed Wolf, which leads a solitary 
life on the pampas of La Plata and in the savannahs of Texas 
and Mexico; lastly, the Mexican Wolf, or Cayotte, and the 
Java Wolf. In the glacial regions of the two continents, White 
Wolves are found. 
Between the Dog, properly so-called, the Wolf, and the Jackal, 
the physical differences are so trifling, that it may be asked if 
these three types of Carnivora are not simply three varieties 
of the same species, instead of constituting three distinct species 
as the majority of naturalists maintain. Certainly, there is 
a wider difference between some breeds of Dogs and others — 
between the Mastiff and the King Charles, than there is between 
the Mastiff and the Wolf. And, nevertheless, the Mastiff and 
King Charles are considered as varieties of the Dog species, 
while this degree of relationship is refused to the Mastiff, Wolf, 
and Jackal. It therefore happens that the naturalists are reduced, 
in order to characterise the domestic Dog, to the assertion that 
it has the tail more or less curved, a peculiarity exclusively 
belonging to this animal. But not only is this distinction puerile ; 
but in many cases it is false, for tame W olves have been seen 
giving way to the influence of example, and becoming accus- 
tomed to carry their tails en trompette, like the Dogs, while many 
Dogs carry their tails straight. In Pointers and Setters, for 
instance, nothing is so unsightly, or a greater mark of bad 
breeding, than a curled tail. 
If it is admitted that the Jackal, Wolf, and Dog, are three races 
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