Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Wild Dogs of Asia. [ARTICLE]

Wild Dogs of Asia.

The whole tribe of wild dogs which, in closely allied forms, are to be found in the wildest jungles aud woods of Asia, from the Himalaya to Ceylon and from China to the Taurus—unless the “golden, wolves” of the Roman Empire aro now extinct in the forests of Asia Minor—show an individual and corporate courge which entitles thorn to a high place among the most daring of wild creatures. The “red dogs,” to give them their moat characteristic name, are neither large in size nor do they assemble in large pucks. Those which have been from time to time measured and described, stein t© average three feet in 1 ligth from the nose to the root of the tail. The pack, seldom numbers more than nine or ten, yet there is sufficient evidence that they are willing aud able to destroy any creature that Inhabits the juugle, except tlm elephant and perhaps the rhinoceros, whose great size and leathery hid a make them almost invulnerable to such creatures ns dogs. The pack deliberately pursue and destroy black and Himalayan bears and the tigers, affording, perhaps, the only Instance in which one carnivorous species deliberately sets itself to hunt down and destroy another. From their rarity, the uninterrupted nature of the jungles which they haunt and their habit of hunting at night—which a probable suggestion makes the basis of the early legends of demon hunter and the “Hellequin" at the time when the “red dogs” still remained in Europe—obsorvatfoua of their habits are rare.—[London Speculator.