The National tribune., 1889-11-28

these young ones, he continues, would follow
him like any civilized dog !" though n showed
It's savage nature by always attacking sheen.
though the latter were too large for the liifie
creature TO hold" This pup did NOT ramaio
with the Colonel very. long, but during ths
time be kept it in captivity it grew as tame
as any wild animal could possibly become"
THE FULL KUOS RUrILANs
is an exceedingly shy and wary animal, and
rarely seen on that account. It is never hunt
ed, and the accounts which have been given
by sportsmen are those Of merely temporary
observations made on occasions when it was ac-
cldentally encountered. 1t would appear from
THESE records that although sometimes hunting
slngly, Wild dogs generally pursue in packs
the numbers of which, as is said to be the case
with the troops Of lions in Gugerat, are SO dis
posed that they can relieve each other in the
chase, and DIR. JeTdOn Sir Walter Elliot and
SandeTsOn have seen the Sambur deer run into
and killed In this manner. Most observers ara
agreed that they hunt both BY sight and scent
but there IS considerable difference of
opinion as to whether they give tongue while
eouTsing. Those which Capt Baldwin saw run
ming to view were not exactly giving tongue y
but he says: distinctly heard them utter a
low kind OF whimper as they passed within 20
yards of my post" JerdOn states that they
bark like hounds, but their barking is in such
a voice as no language can express. In reference
to this point it may be said that the majority Of
species belonging TO the Candle do not bark but
howl; that IS, if the indescribable and unearthly
sounds produced by prairie wolves, coyotes and
Jackals can be called hOwls. 1t is a we'll known
fact that the fox baTks and that this ia COM
mon with domesticated dogs. tbough nv no
means universal. On the other hand, the bark
IS not only trait which is often absent but it
may be lost after possession, and is acquired By
animals to whom it is not natural. The dogs
which have become wild in Juan Fernandez.
Juan De Nova and La Plata are mute in this re-
speet those found in halfreeIaimed state in
Arctic Asia and America almost invariably
howl, and Darwin thinks it might be ARMED
that when man first migrated into America he
brought with him dogs which had
not learned to bark. Finally, Prof Nilsson
states that wolf-whelps reared with domestic
puppies will bark instead Of bowling In India
the wild dogs said to kill every species of
large game found in its forests and jungles, ex-
cept the elephant. Both there and in Africa
the hunted animal has its flank gradually torn
open by successive laeeratiOns from its pursuer's
teeth, and Is at length disabled by partial
eviseeration. It would seem from this WHICH
represents the most common statement Of the
fact, that tLis animal seldom attacks in 'front.'
Dawson, who also notices that curious wbim-
pering noise" heard by Baldwin, informs as
that they use great stratagem in hunting al
I
run down sable antelope in the open, tearing
as he ran at its flank to penetrate the abdome-
nal cavity.
1t is universally believed among the forest
tribes, as well as by the Hindoos who inhabit
places frequented by this animal, that
IN ATTACKING LARGE GAME.
! such as the buffalo, tiger OF bear, which cannot
be coursed, the wild dog blinds its prey tenn
porarIly by an acTid secretion from its own
body. Super caudes micantes in Oceulos tigris
urinam Jactant," says DIR. Williamson san
dcrsOn and DIR. Freyer refer to this stratagem
also, though Moray Brown disbelieves in it. In
Africa sir CORVALLIS Harris reports that a pack
| Will run down the sWiftest antelope" but he
| makes no mention Of either this or any other
device employed TO eOunterbalanee disparity in
I size, nor do Coils. Pollok or MeAIaster make al
lusion to strategy on the part Of the Burmese
| species or variety IN their description of tha
animal as it exists in that country. while Bur-
eheli expressly states that in South Africa the
wilde honden do not attack the larger animals .
Reference has been made to conflicts between
/ the wild dog and the tiger and bear It might
I have been added that the wild hog. and even
| the grim, gray tusker" himself, who some-
times has been known to sIay the tiger. and
/ who cares nothing for the panther aceordinq
| to Capt Shakespere, has suecumbed TO the COM
| bined assaults of these fierce and powerful but,
comparatively speaking, diminutive creatures
/ This matter Of the tiger and wild dog is not
easily settled. Col. Barras, for example, denies
/ that the King Of the Jungle" is ever killed,
| but admits that he IS often driven awav. Con
/ trariwise, Maj Brown says the tiger is nc
| match for the united attack " Of a pack. Can't
| Baldwin remarks that il is universally believed
among the natives of India that the tiger i
/ often destroyed in this way. and he adds tha.
/ his later observations have made him much
/ less lnereGulOus concerning the fact than be
| was at first. Moray Brown rather discredits the
/ actual killing Of an animal Of such great pow
/ ers OF ohense, but says ne has seen Wild dogs
attack the tiger and drive him away from bis
| prey. Upon the whole the weight of evidence
is in favor Of those who affirm that the tiger is
/ tins slain and. indeed, there is no more ante
cedent imprObability in this statement than
| there Is in accounts, which are certainly true,
| OF the destruction of jaguars by peccaries and
/ moreover, the occasional slaughter Of a tiger BY
a wild boar, and the killing Of the grizzly bear
/ by the puma, something generally believed
/ throughout the northwest parts Of the United
| States and British Provinces are circumstances
quite as surprising as that the tiger, exhausted
by fatigue and loss of blood, should at length
become the victim of a persistent attack By
! enemies so active and strong. so savage and 50
/ well armed. lf there be any one conviction
which the study Of descriptive zoology is cal
I culated to impress upon the mind, it IS this
that there are bat few things about Wild beasts
Of which IL can be said beforehand that they
cannot or viii not DO them.
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