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A3LGERINE NOTES. 91
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The Jackal Jackals Are Very Numerous, No...
afterwards more than fifteen years at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris . Jackals are able to eat a great deal of meat ; mine , when it
weighed four pounds , many times ate five pounds of tripe a day . the lion jack When al , inst the ead lion of being has t slain he lion and ' s provider partaken , is of provided a large quad by
-. or ruped other , as small a camel carnivor or a _oii horse s animals , it leaves can remains live . When upon whic a panther h jackals has it does not abandon it
taken as the and and lion kills eaten does , its for full im it prudent dislikes of any large creature the j animal ackal coming , so , lies to eat in wai the t remains near its .
j prey Thus ackals Mr ne . Bombonnel ar the every prey , the of panther the panther slayer ; , now many and tim then es found you dead see
jackals , Arabian dogs , vultures , and ichneumons eating together arise amicabl be y tween a dead them horse . One or ox of . my When acquaintances the prey is was scarce witness , strugg of the les in broad
following fight between a jackal and a vulture day , near the the leg brid of ge a of horse Chevalid during : —The some bird minu with and tes . its the The beak quadruped vulture and , to pulled become at the at
masterrose some feet and struck "wings j fellow ackal , to , and its succeeded rescuepursued in carry the ing vulture off the retook leg . The the j leg ackal gave called it to a
, , , i af ts terwards fellow , who they both it in entered a bush the , and bush then to foug partake ht against of the the fruit enemy of the :
victory * while the vulture soared over the bush without daring to descend upon it .
THE ANTIPATHY OF ANIMALS . have Several their fac natur ts prove al enemies to me , their that animals tipathies , wha , and tever also they undergo may be a , fearful at the
certain fascination of a snake from a ra their bbit enemy or a . hare Lions shrinks become before a ferret facts presence a hed I gehog have myself or a snake witnessed ; before At an Al ichneumon iersin . 1836 I will a lion relate quivere some d ;
fearfull at Philli y when -ville a lizard in 1843 or snake endeavore . was d g cast to bite , into or its to cage , strike . A with lioness her
. dra claw w , every along ppe p the erson , ground approac b , efore _hing her , she . immediatel When and , a tarred y became ined cor motion timid d was ;
she crouched down at the bottom of the cage , remaless From , scarcel 1839 _y daring to 1844 to I look had at an the ichneumon cord . which had never seen ht
home other ; prey it w than as v rats ery or w . mice ked I introduced , . s A prang cohiber at the , and _& ichneumon ve feet bit long every , into was person its broug room and . animal within its reach .
As soon as it saw the quadruped it rolled over and over , and became mon it mo by tionless the shook neck . it The _j and kil ichneumon led rolle , an d d itself devoured , without it . hesitation the After floor seizing several , rushe it d time , the at i s t ichneu , , seize being - upon
led instinctively to roll rapidly to avoid the twining of the snake .
A3lgerine Notes. 91
A 3 _LGERINE NOTES . 91
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1861, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101861/page/19/
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