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Title: Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter), 1846-1902
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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arances, almost always on the move. This migratory habit may be due to the requirements of a food supply, or it may be the result of an instinctive dread of danger; for the wolves, when driven into the forest by the storms of winter, pursue the scattered herds tirelessly. They skim lightly over the surface of the deep snow,and soon seize the doomed aurochs, which sinks deeper and deeper at every bound. According to accounts, three wolves can cope successfully with an aurochs. One of them, by jumping here and there, holds the attention of the animal in front, while the others pounce upon him from behind. There are now about eight hundred or nine hundred auroxen in the forests of Bialowitza. When Greece was in its prime, the animal was to be found in large numbers in what is now Bulgaria, and throughout Central Europe. Some authorities have represented the aurochs as the original of the domestic cattle of Europe. The most recent investigations, however, prove the complete inaccuracy of this theory.
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00 CQ CROCODILES IN BATTLE. 49 Crocodiles in Battle. THE home of the crocodile itself has been incorrectly de-scribed ; for while the animal in early times was to befound in all parts of Egypt, it has now almost disappearedfrom that country and has migrated to the sluggish streams ofEast Soudan and the waters of Central Africa. The crocodilespends his days upon the flat sandbanks asleep or sunning him-self, and seldom wanders more than a hundred steps away fromthe water. When disturbed he hurries back to it with greatswiftness, so that he cannot be overtaken even with the speediestcamel. He avoids obstacles by quick turnings, and the prevail-ing notion that he can change his direction only very slowly ismanifestly erroneous. Moreover, he never pursues human beingsshoreward, but invariably flees from them toward the water at thefirst alarm. After sundown the crocodiles leave their resting-places and betake themselves noiselessly to the water to huntfor fish until daybreak. With the hel

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