Identifier: naturalhistoryo00tenn (find matches)
Title: Natural history of animals;
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877 Tenney, Abby Amy Gove, 1836-
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d have such stout teeth and powerfuljaws that they are able to crush the bones of the largestprey, the fragments of which they swallow withoutmasticating them. Dogs, Wolves, and Foxes. The Dog is the only animal that has followed manto all parts of the world. The varieties are numerous,and differ from one another greatly in their appearanceand habits. Some of the most distinct varieties arethe Greyhound, St. Bernard, Newfoundland, Eskimo,Shepherd Dog, Fox Terrier, Deerhound, Bloodhound,Spaniel, Setter, Pointer, Poodle, Terrier, Mastiff, etc.The Dog is noted for its sagacity, courage, and faith-fulness. Wolves are ferocious and greedy animals, about thesize of a large Dog. They often hunt in companies orpacks, and thus are able to kill animals which singlythey could not master. In newly settled parts of the 30 VERTEBRATES: MAMMALS. country, they destroy sheep, calves and other animalsof the farm. The White and Gray Wolf is found innearly all the thinly settled regions of North America.
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Fig. 45. —American White and Gray Wolf. The Prairie Wolf is common in the regions west of theMississippi River. Foxes are distinguished from all the rest of the Dogfamily by their pointed muzzle and large bushy tail.They are the most sly and crafty of all animals, con-triving to steal turkeys, geese, chickens and whateverthey want to eat, and carry them away to their lurking-places in the woods and thickets. They are huntedwith hounds, which go in swift pursuit, while thehunter, knowing the habits of the animal, concealshimself in some valley or other locality where the foxwill be almost sure to pass, and when it comes nearenough shoots him down. But it must be stated that,in many cases, the shrewd movements of the foxdeceive both the hunter and the dogs. If capturedalive, which rarely happens, and struck while it is in asituation from which it cannot escape, the fox feignsitself dead, though unhurt, and when its captor is offhis guards will jump up and run away. FLESH-EATERS. Civet

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