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swine and a wolf, which he witnessed on the military 
positions of Croatia. He says that the swine, seeing 
two wolves, formed themselves into a wedge, and ap¬ 
proached the wolves slowly, grunting and erecting their 
bristles. One wolf fled, but the other leaped on to the 
trunk of a tree. As soon as the swine reached it, they 
surrounded it with one accord, when, suddenly and instanta¬ 
neously, as the wolf attempted to leap over them, they 
got him down and destroyed him in a moment.” 
From this house, the path leading in the direction of “ The 
Hermitage,” a private residence outside the Gardens, 
should be followed, and on the left of the path, under a 
shed, is to be found that peculiar ruminant, Anoa depres - 
sicornis; the small wild buffalo of the forests of Celebes. 
But before visiting the Ruminants to which the Anoa 
belongs, the visitor should first notice the small cage on the 
right hand side of the path leading southwards, which 
generally contains young bears ; and beyond it, still further 
to the right, are three 
Bear Houses 
radiating from a common centre, inhabited by three species 
of bears, viz., the common or Honey-bear of India, 
Mclursus labiatus ; the common Black bear of the Hima¬ 
laya, Ursus tibetanus ; and the smaller or Malay Sun-bear, 
Helarctos malayanus. 
The Bears, or Ursidce , constitute one of the divisions 
of the Carnivora or flesh-eating animals, that is, having 
teeth specially adapted to this kind of diet. How¬ 
ever, the bears, with one or two exceptions, are fru- 
givorous, and it is remarkable - that the teeth of these 
vegetable feeders do not present such differences from 
