Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia
Identifier: brehmslifeofanim1896breh (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; Pechuel-Loesche, Edward, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior
Publisher: Chicago : Marquis
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96 THE BEASTS OF PREY. in a pack and together they attack the Sheep and Goat flocks of the natives. The Striped A species much resembling these is Wolf an Inter- the Striped Wolf (Cams adustus), an mea.ate Specws. animal resembling both the Wolf and the Jackal. The body is elongated; the head of a conical shape, pointed toward the snout, not unlike that of the Fox; the eyes have a slanting position- the ears are widely separated, like those of the Jackal, and rounded; the legs are strikingly long and slen- der. The tail reaches to the ground. "The Striped Wolf," says Pechuel-Loesche, who observed him in Lower Guinea, especially in Loango in the wilderness as well as tamed, " is statelier and has longer legs than the Fox. He has the same sly expression of the face, but suggests also a decidedly better disposition and has a more aristocratic bearing These Wolves are remarkably agile, lithe animals' freedom. Not only did he run around in the enclos- ure and visit our rooms, but he prowled around for hours in our plantations and the forests of the neigh- borhood. He searched for Beetles and Grasshop- pers, playfully jumping after those that whirred away and also caught many an unwary little mammal or bird Unfortunately he did not catch the Rats which had become quite a plague in our camp. He left the poultry alone after once having received a slight castigation for catching a Hen. When after this he regarded some forbidden dainty with covetous eves a mild word or a slight remonstrance was sufficient to turn him from his evil way. Sometimes he strayed trom the enclosure and remained away all day but he always made his appearance in the dining-room at rnght to receive a few scraps. If he was forgotten for a longer time than he deemed proper, he pushed his nose against the leg of some one present, or like
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SSBSrand smaU domestlc âls-andfs -^^^ ciSSnS and it affords one great pleasure to observe their SeseSrntt Ju CT T10 qUit° Cl°Se t0 ^man dwell- ings, for the village Dogs never think of picking a quarrel with them; neither do the nativcs,Pwhofall hnfl o " /'⢠h;irVhcm; The Mbulu'utters hi an" 1^£?â¢1 ,yC I' !n _** «?** -d evening a Dog, put his head on somebody's knee He ac cepted everything thankfully : bread, beans rice fish meat, even raw bananas, or oil nuts ; but he could crush only the smallest bones with his teeth If one of us paid him attention or spoke to him kindly he would look into our eyes with a greatly pleased all the year round ; it is I T T S ^ ,W°^ld l0°k into our e>'es with a greatly pleased â nay be quite startled w en he n in T'T^ 7* affectio"?te expression, like a Dog. but' ven sel lite proximity of a vilfi*orfnLV^Z ^1 fZZTf ^ ^ /he-man voice produced an imp ession on him such as I have seen exhibited onlv * . . ; â ***- *t^a.i?> ii in LJic mime- dfte proximity of a village or encampment The piteous cries of a Mbulu once brought ul to the edit Of a bushy little forest just in time to rescue the ^ mal from a huge Snake which was strangling it The Striped »\\ e frequently kept half-grown Striped CWa°PVny. ^Z "/ °l,r enclosure One of them ' » grew to be a very state y animal and was so tame and docile that he was given Sited by the Gorilla ; it literally seemed to fascinate him." Character- The Jackal (Cams or Lupus aureus) is /sties of the the animal which the ancients called Jackal. Thos or Gold-Wolf, and probablv the same as the " Foxes " mentioned in the Bible'with which Samson, by setting fire to their tails, burned the wheat fields and vineyards of the Philistines The

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