dolichotes

Updated: May 8, 2025

And next morning the poor beast was found lying dead not twenty yards from the gate; although he had not appeared ill when I stroked his nose on the previous evening; but when I saw him lying there dead, and remembered the old native's words, it seemed to me as marvellous and inexplicable that a horse should act in that way, as if some wild creature a rhea, a fawn, or dolichotes had come to exhale his last breath at the gates of his enemy and constant persecutor, man.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - The Naturalist in La Plata