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Even had it been a savage creature, he knew it could not climb a tree though there are two smaller species of ant-bears in South America that can and he therefore knew he was quite safe on his perch. But his feelings were very different when the red body of the puma came in sight.
This rise afterwards came to be known as "Colesberg Kopje"; eventually it was named "Kimberley," after Lord Kimberley, who was Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time of the annexation of the diamond-fields. On it were usually to be found hares, Namaqua partridges, korhaan, and an occasional steenbok. Ant-bears and jackals had been at work at various places.
It is wonderful to observe the order in which they move, and with what pains and labour they surmount the obstructions of the path. The ants have their enemies as well as the rest of animated nature. Amongst the foremost of these stand the three species of ant-bears.
The ground was deep with prairie grass, as dry as tinder, and scattered throughout were innumerable holes in the ground made by the ant-bears and wart-hogs. Any one of these holes was enough to throw a horse head over heels if he went into it. I had no gun, having left it with my gunbearer when I took the picture. So there was nothing to hinder me as we swept across the great plain.
Besides the tamanoir there are two, or perhaps three, other species of ant-bears in the forests of South America. These, however, are so different in habits and appearance, that they might properly be classed as a separate genus of animals. They are tree-climbers, which the tamanoir is not, spite of his great claws.
He turned his eyes in that direction. It was not there! The ant-bears were still upon the ground the young one dead, and the mother struggling in her last agonies; but no puma! The boy began to hope that his cries had frightened him off. His hope was short-lived; for on glancing around the glade, he now beheld the fierce brute crouching among the grass, and evidently coming towards him!
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