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Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.It is not exactly like the wolf of India, America, and Europe, but, neverthe-less, it fills its place. It is not as fierce as the true wolf, but at the same timeit becomes a very formidable animal when urged by hunger or danger. As soon as civilized inhabitants took up their abode in Tasmania the wolfmade great inroads upon their sheep-flocks, until the colonists, in self-defence,were forced to begin a war of extermination. By degrees the Tasmanian wolfwas driven back from its former haunts, where it once reigned supreme, and itis seldom seen now outside the copses and jungles. Curiously enough, the Tasmanian wolf is found in the mountains as highup as six thousand feet, for it does not seem to suffer from cold. The homeof the Tasmanian wolf is always made among rocks, where the mother-wolf iscomparatively safe, while the cubs can sleep all day until nightfall makes itsafe for them to go out. The wolfs total length is about four feet, of whichthe tail takes up about fifteen inches, /
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TASMANIAN DEVIL KILLING CHICKENS. TASMANIAN DEVIL. No animal in the world has so richly deserved its name as the .Devil. The ferocity of this creature can hardly be conceived except bywho have come in contact with it. Even in captivity its sullen and purpose,anger is easily excited. It is absolutely untamable. Should anyone approacuits cage, it will tear at the bars with its teeth and claws in its frantic efforts toget out, all the while keeping up loud screams of rage. In the early days of Tasmania the devil caused great losses to the farmersthrough its wholesale destruction of sheep, pigs, and fowls. Many a man hasbeen nearly torn to pieces trying to defend his live-stock from one of theseanimals. A curious thing about the Tasmanian devil is that it does not knowwhat fear means. When beaten off by an enemy stronger than itself, it returnsto the attack until it is killed, or at least maimed. No animal in that countrywill face it. The strength of jaw in the Tasmanian devil is so great

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