. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE HORNED ANIMALS—GOATS. 453 compelled from motives of self-preservation to ac- cept it, as it occurred on the edge of a precipice. For a whole hour he had to struggle with the animal before he subdued it. Besides these chivalrous ex- ploits the buck was guilty of greater deeds of mis- chief. He continued to be the terror of the goat- herds, whom he frequently attacked and ill-treated, coming down from the heights to visit their huts. The people l
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE HORNED ANIMALS—GOATS. 453 compelled from motives of self-preservation to ac- cept it, as it occurred on the edge of a precipice. For a whole hour he had to struggle with the animal before he subdued it. Besides these chivalrous ex- ploits the buck was guilty of greater deeds of mis- chief. He continued to be the terror of the goat- herds, whom he frequently attacked and ill-treated, coming down from the heights to visit their huts. The people living on the mountains again began handing in petitions to the government, and the con- sequence was another removal of the buck. The Grimselalpe was allotted to him; but there also he evinced his old disposition; he picked quarrels with all Dogs with which he came in contact, even with the largest; and if they stood their ground he simply threw them over his head, sending them through the lir in a bold curve. He defiantly put himself in the formation of its horns. The favorite haunts of the Pyrenean Ibex are as inaccessible as those of the Steinbock, and it is equally as difficult to hunt. General Character- The Goats proper (Hircus) are, on an istics of Domes- average, of a smaller size than the tic Goats. Ibex. The horns are more or less compressed, those of the male having longitudinal angular ridges or "keels," while those of both male and female are marked by wrinkles or transverse rings, each depression indicating a deposit of horny matter acquired during the growth of the horn. In all other respects the Goats resemble the Ibex. Ancestry of the As is the case with the other domes- Domestic tic animals we do not know which Goat. species of wild animals was the orig- inal progenitor of the domestic Goat. Our informa- tion about the wild Goats, which are especially nu-. THE .EGAGRUS GOAT. The wild Goat, called Paseng by the Persian?, is believed by many naturali
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