. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. THE CAPE HUNTING DOG. Hearing of its arrival I hastened to obtaina picture, having had a hint that theynever live long here. True enough thepoor bird in a very few days becamealmost unrecognisable as the beautifulbird shown. The Osprey used formerlyto breed in the British Isles, chiefly inScotland, by the shores of wooded moun-tain lakes, where it fishes by descendingfrom great heights above the water andprecipitating itself, and seizing with its clawsthe fish it has observed on the mode of living has given it t
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. THE CAPE HUNTING DOG. Hearing of its arrival I hastened to obtaina picture, having had a hint that theynever live long here. True enough thepoor bird in a very few days becamealmost unrecognisable as the beautifulbird shown. The Osprey used formerlyto breed in the British Isles, chiefly inScotland, by the shores of wooded moun-tain lakes, where it fishes by descendingfrom great heights above the water andprecipitating itself, and seizing with its clawsthe fish it has observed on the mode of living has given it the nameof the Fishing TWO OF THE WILD HORSES. WORTH £500 THE \IE. Zoo Notes 35 The Vilde-honden of the Boers was calledbj last century naturalists by HuTJttng^Dog. ^^^ ^.^^y appropriate name ofHunting Hyaena, it is thedread of the sheep farmers, for not contentwith making a meal off the sheep, they willrip open, tear, and mangle, fifty more thanthey can devour-. These pests are about thesize of a large Dalmatian Dog, then- coat isyellowish grey, strangely marked (withoutany symmetrjO with splashes of black,principally upon the legs. Thej go inpacks of about twenty, and hunt downtheir prey in relays; part of the pack willmake the running, and when the leaders aretned out, they will fall back, and the otherswho have been reserving their strength willcome up andrelieve restlessnessof the ones atthe Zoo, whennot curled up onthe piece of oldsacking, hascost photo-graphers manydozens ofplates, and itwas only aftermany wearyattempts that Iwas even able toobtain the poorresult shown,which howeverI bel
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