Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Photo by Kermit Roosevelt Courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons Colonel Roosevelt's first South American jaguar, brought down from a tree at seventy yards dis- tance. The jaguar is heavier and more powerful than the African leopard, having the stout frame and muscular build of the lion. It feeds on capybara and cayman, on peccary and deer, and will even pounce on and devour large anacondas On one occasion Cherrie was hunting pec- caries and the peccaries treed him. He was up there four hours. He found those four hours a Httle monotonous, I judge. I never had any adventure with them myself. They make queer moan- ing grunts. We spent a couple of days in getting the specimens that we brought back. We had four dogs with us. The ranchmen had loaned them to us al- though I doubt wdiether they really wished to let us have them, for the big peccary is a murderous foe of dogs. One of them frankly refused to let his dogs come, explaining that the fierce wild swine were "very badly brought up" and that respectable dogs and men ought not to go near them. We might just as well not have taken any dogs, however. Two of them as soon as they smelled the peccaries went home. The 46 third one made for a thicket about a hundred yards away and stayed there until he was sure which would come out ahead. The fourth advanced only when there was a man ahead of him. The dangerous little peccaries made fierce moaning grunts on their waj' through the jungle and rattled their tusks like castanets whenever we came up. Armadillos were unexpectedly inter- esting because they ran so fast. Once on a jaguar hunt we came upon two of the big nine-banded armadillos; which are called the "big armadillos." The dogs raced at them. One of the arma- dillos got into the thick brush. The other ran for a hundred yards with the dogs close upon it; wheeled and came back like a bullet right through the pack. Its wedged-shaped snout and armored body made the dogs totally unable to

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