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Updated: June 24, 2025
A dog-team and a bois-brule bring them, and then I am alone as before. When all that is done I will come back." "And then, Pourcette?" said Shon. "Then I will hang that one skin over the chimney where his gun is and go out and kill more pumas. What else can one do? When I stop killing I shall be killed. A million pumas and their skins are not worth the life of my friend."
He saw faces about him for an instant shaggy wild Breton faces but they dropped away, he knew not where. The current kept driving him inshore. As in a dream, he could hear the breakers the pumas on their tread-mill of death. How long would it last? How long before he would be beaten upon that tread-mill fondled to death by those mad paws? Presently dreams came-kind, vague, distant dreams.
In pastoral districts the puma is very destructive to the larger domestic animals, and has an extraordinary fondness for horseflesh. This was first noticed by Molina, whose Natural History of Chili was written a century and a half ago. In Patagonia I heard on all sides that it was extremely difficult to breed horses, as the colts were mostly killed by the pumas.
A ranchman, named Trescott, who was at one time my neighbor, told me that while he was living on a sheep-farm in the Argentine, he found pumas very common, and killed many. They were very destructive to sheep and colts, but were singularly cowardly when dealing with men.
I once spent several weeks with a surveying party in a district where pumas were very abundant, and saw not less than half a dozen deer every day, freshly killed in most cases, and all with dislocated necks.
The words were scarcely spoken when the deer were followed by a drove of peccaries; then came jaguars, pumas, antelopes, and monkeys; panthers and wolves and snakes, great and small, wriggling over the ground with wondrous speed, and creatures the like of which I had never seen before a regular stampede of all sorts and conditions of reptiles and beasts, and all too much frightened to meddle either with us or each other.
Kane gave an inarticulate yell of warning. No words were needed to translate that warning to the keeper, who was sobered completely as he flashed round and saw what was happening. With a sharp command he rushed to drive the pumas back and close the gate. But one was already through, and the other blocked the way.
Prussia, numerical proportion of male and female births in. Psocus, proportions of the sexes in. Ptarmigan, monogamous; summer and winter plumage of the; nuptial assemblages of; triple moult of the; protective coloration of. Puff-birds, colours and nidification of the. Pugnacity of fine-plumaged male birds. Pumas, stripes of young. Puppies learning from cats to clean their faces.
"I told you that I would bring you to a region where there is an abundance of game," observed Kanimapo; and he pointed to a herd of deer directly below us, grazing quietly, unconscious of our vicinity. "But see! there are already hunters before us," I remarked, as at that instant I observed two large pumas stealing along the top of an overhanging rock.
As for the giant tamandua, in spite of its fighting prowess I am wholly unable to understand how such a slow and clumsy beast has been able through the ages to exist and thrive surrounded by jaguars and pumas. Speaking generally, the animals that seek to escape observation trust primarily to smell to discover their foes or their prey, and see whatever moves and do not see whatever is motionless.
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