. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. is MadameSarah Bernhardt. ?270 Zoo Notes 271 The Dingo is remarkable as being the onlyThe Dingo, mammal found in Australia which isnot a marsupial. In all proba-bility it is an importation, andnot a true native of the attempts have been madeto exterminate the race on accountof the great havoc among thesheep which even a single dingowill commit, and they are nowonly to be found in the John Sebright kept a dingofor about a year almost alwaysin his room. He fed him himself,and took every means he couldt
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. is MadameSarah Bernhardt. ?270 Zoo Notes 271 The Dingo is remarkable as being the onlyThe Dingo, mammal found in Australia which isnot a marsupial. In all proba-bility it is an importation, andnot a true native of the attempts have been madeto exterminate the race on accountof the great havoc among thesheep which even a single dingowill commit, and they are nowonly to be found in the John Sebright kept a dingofor about a year almost alwaysin his room. He fed him himself,and took every means he couldthink of to reclaim him, butwith no effect. He was insensibleto caresses, and never appeared todistinguish Sir John from any other dog would never follow him, even fromone room to another. Wolves and foxeshave shown much more sociability, and theabove instance seems to prove that thepropensities so marked in every breed ofdomestic dog are not found in the dingo, atall events in its natural state, although itmust be confessed that, in the case of dingoes. bred in captivity, better results have beenobtained, as, for example, Mrs. Brookes Chelsworth Myall, whose photograph wasgiven on page 160. One of the most interesting objects in theBoa-Constrictor ^^le collection of reptiles at in a strikingattitude.
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