Cannibalism Among Wolves.
"Hawks do not pick out hawks' oyos," pays mi old proverb, tlio French equivalent of which is that "wolves do not cat each other." Old proverbs, howovor, which are only tho rude generalisations of our unscientific ancestors, are generally tooswoeping; and wolves do, as a matter of fact, sometimes eat each other, especially when they belong to different species, Two Russian stag-wolves and a common French wolf were lately put to occupy a cage in Salva's menagerie as it was leaving Besancon for D&le. Soon afterwards terrific howling was heard issuing from the wolves' cage. Tho .three carnivora were engaged in mortal combat, and all the offorts of an omploy(s sent to separate them wero in vain. The two Russian wolves wore insensible to tho heavy blows which rained upon them, all absorbed as they were in their deadly attack on theirunf ortunateFrench congener. Five minutes afterwards the hapless animal was dead ; and when the menagerie reached Dole nothing was left of him. but his bones. —" St James's Gazette."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4193, 24 November 1883, Page 11 (Supplement)
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