. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 122 THE BEASTS OF PREY. of Monkeys broke into a croaking cry and came rushing in his direction. Dexterously the animals swung from branch to branch, from tree to tree ex- pressing, in plaintive cries, their great terror A Puma was pursuing them, leaping from tree to tree He slipped through the tortuous branches, wound with creeping vines, with most incredible agilitv making his way out on boughs until they bein with his weight, and then jumping to
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 122 THE BEASTS OF PREY. of Monkeys broke into a croaking cry and came rushing in his direction. Dexterously the animals swung from branch to branch, from tree to tree ex- pressing, in plaintive cries, their great terror A Puma was pursuing them, leaping from tree to tree He slipped through the tortuous branches, wound with creeping vines, with most incredible agilitv making his way out on boughs until they bein with his weight, and then jumping to another tree. When the Puma has seized his victim, lie tears open its neck, and laps its blood before he begins to eat. He devours even- part of a small animal; but larger ones he eats only in part, usually the head neck and shoulders, and, according to Azara's obser- vations, he covers up the remainder with straw or sand. Frequently the slaughter of a single creature. THE CO CIGAR OR PDMA eyes I he picture represent, a famUy renve *dei tlv "Vheff T^T^l^ ^ Sp0tS above and b"⢠** the other wants .t. There will be trouble. (ftS^.) m the backe>^nd has captured a large bird and -?«S»fr"i^«i^aei6iiSS doe not content this sanguinary animal, and thus he becomes a dangerous enemy to owners of flocks He never carries his victim far from the ohc ar attacks amma^Sg than Sheep; Horses, Mules and Cows arc secure from his attacks, as well as Dogs; although he fre quently prowls - lose to houses. k c" Hunting Owing to Ins cruelty and the injury he the does to the property of Man the Puma is being energetically exterminated. There U 00 great danger in hunting him if one is cautious for even a wounded Puma is not much to be feared' Among the many stories illustrating the character of this annual, the following seems to me to be v<g:'â good: An Englishman, hunting wild Ducks in the pampas, was creeping along on the ground towards som
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