STAYING POWER OF ANIMALS
Dogs and wild animals of the sam 6 family are remarkable for tljeir quickness and 1 staying powers in. running. A fox-terrier will follow his master's carriage for hours with no signs of ■fatigue. Wolves will travel sixty miles in a night. Nansen saw Arctic . foxes on the ice nearly 500 miles from land; and found' their tracks in tlie snow on the parallel of 85deg. north. Eskimo dogs ciin travel 45 miles in five hours, according to Hayes, who recites' that he drove his dog team seven miles in half an hour. A Siberian dog on good ice will draw about 80 pounds; our ordinary dogs at full speed run at the rate of from .35 to 49 feet per second ;■ setters and pointers can travel about 18g to 21 7-10 miles per hour, and can maintain this speed for two or even three hours'. Fox-hounds arc very fast, and in a recent^ trial, states the "Pall Mall Gazette," one of them beat a thoroughbred horse, covering four miles. in sir. .minutes and » half. Greyhounds can run at the rato of 59 to 75 feet per (second.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 12
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192STAYING POWER OF ANIMALS Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 12
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