Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-12-27
RED DOC OF INDIA.
He Is A kiGATY HUNTER or
GAME ANIMALS.
kever Reaches the Size Of I We'll and
10 Of Peculiar Shape-To Do
Found All Over Asia.

The red dog sever reaches ths 80
Of a wolf, though It exceeds tha& Of q
3ackal, says IL Saratoga Review. h
shape Is uneoutA, the body Marrow and
low In the fsrsl1arters, With lsese
Embs ending in large awkward paws.
the head and brush carried low. TAe
head, remarkable for the large blut
furry ears, Il iAtermediate between
the domestic dog and fox, without The
honest look ef tAs one Of the quick.
witted sharpness Of the other. Against
these disadvaatAges the bright chest
nut hue Of the Wild dogs coat, shading
into black At the end of the brush,
DOES not avail for hAndsomeness.
Over most az India it il to be found.
on mountains and plains, in forest,
where forest Crews and about the baro
slopes where the hills have not vegeta-
tioR. East OF India, n very similar
beast ranges ,svsa to Java, and anoth-
er, paler and shasEier, haunts OF ST.
IBERIA and Sa1halin, 10 that over most
of Asia one form or .othsr is to be
reckoned with. Naturally the Indian
species is the most known, yet it is
NOT known 1T al intimately. for
though SO widely spread 1t IL not q
common animal and the field natural.
lists OF India have little to Say of it.
But 1t is clear that the red dog Is a
very different animal from the wolf
and tar superior to any other eastern
canine. Most OF the wild relatives of
our dogs are cowardly beasts. feeding
On carrion and small animals and
enly attacking large ones when hard
pushed by hunger: Such il the VOLTS
way ct lite, while the jackal skulks
large towns In search OF scraps, max.
ing night hideous with his howls, even
In Calcutta. But the red dog is q
true huAter. the d4adliest foe to the
game animals that Is known In the
east. He u NJ very swift-less 50
than The jacta-nor is he adroit or
graceful in his actions, but he follows
the scent mostly In silence, with a
deadly persistence, and however long
The trail nay be the pack runs into
their victim without fail in tho end.
They do not 10 in large numbers-a
dozen would be big pack-but what
they want In force IL replaced by their
courage and cunning strategy in at
tack.
Their ordinary prey is the powerful
sambur deer and the beautiful spotted
axis, corresponding to our red deer
and fallow deer, the various antelopes
of the plains and wild goats of the
hills. All Of these they harry in turn
for few days, then the terrified
beasts forsake that section OF the
Jungle and the red pack must range
far atield again, not to return till long
after, when the terror of their raid
has subsidized in the locality. Their
methods of attack are terrible in the
extreme; some of their devices, in
deed, can hardly be mentioned here
Suffice it to say that their ordinary
plan, whenever possible, is to disem
bowel the victim
Deer are not the only prey on which
these terrible creatures adventure;
the biggest horns known of the gaul
(bos gaurus) came from one said tc
have been killed by wild dogs, of the
Burmese race in this case; and YET
this gaur, the largest of all wild oxen
Is too much for the ordinary tiger;
and the tiger often fails with the bear
the most gallant Of all wild animals
but the red pack will bring him to bis
end. Their fellow carnivores even az.
not safe. The black bear of the FIJI
malayas, although the fiercest o.
Italian bears, has been seen in his lxst
struggle with the pack, with torn
coat and flesh in strips, fighting game
II still.