courtant

Updated: May 9, 2025

Of this class were Courtant, the bob-tailed wolf that terrorized the whole city of Paris for about ten years in the beginning of the fourteenth century; Clubfoot, the lame grizzly bear that left such a terrific record in the San Joaquin Valley of California; Lobo, the king-wolf of New Mexico, that killed a cow every day for five years, and the Seonee panther that in less than two years killed nearly three hundred human beings and such also was Silverspot, whose history, so far as I could learn it, I shall now briefly tell.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Wild Animals I Have Known