 | 1840 - 494 pages
...dead ; and if he is deceived by this manœuvre, and unties them, they seize the moment to start on their legs, and disappear in an instant. A still more...pursued by dogs the kanchil will sometimes make a bound upward, hook itself on the branch of a tree by means of its crooked tusks, and there remain suspended... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Animal behavior - 1848 - 320 pages
...start on its legs, and disappears in an instant. A still more singular expedient is mentioned, viz., that when closely pursued by dogs, the Kanchil will sometimes make a bound upwards, hook itself on the branch of a tree by means of its bent tusks, and there remain suspended, till the dogs have passed... | |
 | Mammals - 1849 - 428 pages
...start on its legs and disappears in an instant. A still more singular expedient is mentioned, viz. that, when closely pursued by dogs, the kanchil will sometimes make a bound upwards, hook itself on the branch of a tree by means of its bent tusks, and there remain suspended till the dogs have passed... | |
 | James Beart Simonds - 1854 - 132 pages
...both for its swiftness and cunningness, it is said, " that when closely pursued by dogs the creature will sometimes make a bound upwards, hook itself on...remain suspended till the dogs have passed beneath. "! To return to the animals of whose dentition I have principally to speak : — In the pig we find... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1855 - 626 pages
...both for its swiftness and cunningness, it is said, " that when closely pursued by dogs the creature will sometimes make a bound upwards, hook itself on...remain suspended till the dogs have passed beneath."* To return to the animals of whose dentition I have principally to speak : — In the pig we find the... | |
 | John Murray - 1855 - 624 pages
...both for its swiftness and cunningness, it is said, " that when closely pursued by dogs the creature will sometimes make a bound upwards, hook itself on...remain suspended till the dogs have passed beneath."* To return to the animals of whose dentition I have principally to speak :—In the pig we find the... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield - Zoology - 1858 - 712 pages
...an instant." A still more singular expedient is mentioned, viz., "that when closely pursued by the dogs, the Kanchil will sometimes make a bound upwards, hook itself on the branch of a tree by means of its bent tusks, and there remain suspended, until the dogs have passed... | |
 | Linnean Society of London - Botany - 1822 - 710 pages
...be dead ; and if he is deceived by this manoeuvre and unties them, they seize the moment to start on their legs and disappear in an instant. A still more...will sometimes make a bound upwards, hook itself on the branch of a tree by means of its crooked tusks, and there remain suspended till the dogs have passed... | |
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... others of the same class the tushes are so long as to protrude from the mouth, curving downwards and backwards with an elegant sweep. In one variety, an animal called by Cuvier the Kanchil, proverbial both for its swiftness and cunningness, it is... 