DOG CHARACTERS 
milk in their stomachs. So that what with this habit 
and the zeal for science exhibited in returning the com- 
pliment by examining its stomach, the days of Proteles 
will probably not be long in the land. Like most 
carnivora Pvoteles has glands secreting a strongly 
flavoured liquid at the root of the tail. In the case of 
the skunk, these glands, well-known in that animal, are 
doubtless for aggressive purposes. Most probably, as it 
appears to us, the variety of flavours which these 
glands produce in different animals are “ recognition 
odours,’ a more effective way, one would think, for 
individuals of a species to recognize each other than the 
white patches, and other recognition marks, seeing 
that in mammals generally the sense of smell is superior 
to that of sight. 
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Dogs are usually gregarious animals as everyone 
knows, and the hunting of wolves in packs occurred 
as an incident, or used to occur, in every juvenile book 
of adventure, rightly impressing upon the mind this 
fact in Natural History. The Lycaon pictus shows its 
dog-like characters by the fact of its similar mode of 
hunting, and not only by its anatomical structure. As 
to the latter, it is important to note some of the features 
which distinguish the dogs which form a distinct group 
of the carnivora, from the cat-like and bear-like carni- 
vores.. As to colour, dogs do not, as a rule, produce spots 
or stripes while cats do very generally, and the members 
of the bear tribe frequently have ringed tails. It is true 
that there are spotted dogs ; but these where not signs 
of conviviality are artificial breeds. Dogs are digiti- 
gerade like the cats, but they have not retractile claws, 
and they do not use their comparatively blunt claws 
for tearing and scratching like the cat. Unlike the “ cat 
i the adage,’ they do not dislike water. Cats are 
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