. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE TRAKEHNEN HORSE.—A famous German breed of fine Horses, receiving this name from the noted stables in which its excellent faculties and fine running qualities were developed. Next to the English Thoroughbred it is the best runner among European varieties of the domestic Horse. fifty paces. Therefore they are the most frequent victims of this beast of prey in the populated dis- tricts of Paraguay. Wild Horses A. von Humboldt has given us in a Des
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE TRAKEHNEN HORSE.—A famous German breed of fine Horses, receiving this name from the noted stables in which its excellent faculties and fine running qualities were developed. Next to the English Thoroughbred it is the best runner among European varieties of the domestic Horse. fifty paces. Therefore they are the most frequent victims of this beast of prey in the populated dis- tricts of Paraguay. Wild Horses A. von Humboldt has given us in a Described by Von few words a masterly description of Humboldt the manner of life of the wild Horses in the llanos lying more to the north: "When the grass of those immense plains becomes charred and resolves into dust in summer, under the perpendicular rays of the never-clouded sun, the soil gradually cracks, as if it were torn by powerful earthquakes. Enveloped in dense clouds of dust and pressed by hunger and a burning thirst, the Horses and Cattle roam about, the former with their heads lifted high up, against the wind, snorting and inflating their nostrils, trying to discover by the dampness of the air-current the location of some pool that has not yet all evaporated. The Mules try to quench their thirst in another way more delib- erate and showing a higher order of intelligence. A spherical and spinous-coated plant, the melon cac- tus, encloses a watery pulp in its prickly exterior. The Mule beats these thorns aside with its fore-feet in order to drink the cool juice. But the drawing of water from this living, vegetable source is not devoid of danger; for one often sees animals whic are severely wounded in the hoofs and lamed by these cactus-thorns. When the coolness of night at last succeeds the glaring heat of day, the Horses and Cattle are still deprived of their rest. The Vampires disturb them in their sleep and fasten on their backs to suck their ; Many
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