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... hunting dogs until in 1964 the German ethologist Wolfdietrich Ktthme studied a pack for several months in the Serengeti. I had read his intriguing scientific report, in which, for example, he described how after a pack had killed and ...
... hunting dogs until in 1964 the German ethologist Wolfdietrich Ktthme studied a pack for several months in the Serengeti. I had read his intriguing scientific report, in which, for example, he described how after a pack had killed and ...
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... hunting dogs assures that the pups receive a major share of the food and are guarded from marauding hyenas. Certainly the fascination of hunting dogs stems in part from the fact that they are psychologically close to us. Notch and his ...
... hunting dogs assures that the pups receive a major share of the food and are guarded from marauding hyenas. Certainly the fascination of hunting dogs stems in part from the fact that they are psychologically close to us. Notch and his ...
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... dogs and her offspring, but soon she just ran along, trailed by her doomed young. While two dogs nipped her legs, one of the others bit the calf in the thigh and pulled it to a standstill. Within seconds the others tore ... Hunting Dogs 225.
... dogs and her offspring, but soon she just ran along, trailed by her doomed young. While two dogs nipped her legs, one of the others bit the calf in the thigh and pulled it to a standstill. Within seconds the others tore ... Hunting Dogs 225.
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Life in the Pride | 60 |
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