. Le naturaliste en La Plata. eul approche pour regarder lui closelyat et parfois la suivre sur des kilomètres.Ils sont aussi excitables, et parfois faire instrange freaks. Darwin a écrit :- sur l'mountainsof Tierra del JFuego J'ai plus d'une fois huanaco seena, sur le point d'être atteintes, non seulement neighand grincement, mais bond et se pavanent dans un mostridiculous au sujet de manière, semble-t-il au mépris comme achallenge. Et le capitaine King raconte qu'whilesailing au Port désir qu'il a été témoin d'une poursuite d'ahuanaco après un renard, les deux animaux évidemment goingat leur plus grande vitesse, de sorte qu'ils ont vite passedout de vue. J'ha

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. The naturalist in La Plata. nly approach to look closelyat him, but will sometimes follow him for miles.They are also excitable, and at times indulge instrange freaks. Darwin writes:— On the mountainsof Tierra del JFuego I have more than once seena huanaco, on being approached, not only neighand squeal, but prance and leap about in a mostridiculous manner, apparently in defiance as achallenge. And Captain King relates that whilesailing into Port Desire he witnessed a chase of ahuanaco after a fox, both animals evidently goingat their greatest speed, so that they soon passedout of sight. I have known some tame huanacos, and in that state they make amusing intelligentpets, fond of being caressed, but often so frolicsomeand mischievous as to be a nuisance to their master.It is well known that at the southern extremityof Patagonia the huanacos have a dying place, aspot to which all individuals inhabiting the surround-ing plains repair at the approach of death to deposittheir bones. Darwin and Fitzroy first recorded. Sentinel Huanaco, The Dying Huanaco. 317 this strange instinct in their personal narratives, and their observations have since been fully con-firmed by others. The best known of these dyingor burial-places are on the banks of the Santa Cruzand Grallegos rivers, where the river valleys arecovered with dense primaeval thickets of bushes andtrees of stunted growth; there the ground is coveredwith the bones of countless dead generations. The animals, says Darwin, in most cases musthave crawled, before dying, beneath and among thebushes. A strange instinct in a creature so pre-eminently social in its habits; a dweller all its lifelong on the open, barren plateaus and mountainsides! What a subject for a painter! The greywilderness of dwarf thorn trees, aged and grotesqueand scanty-leaved, nourished for a thousand yearson the bones that whiten the stony ground at theirroots; the interior lit faintly with the rays of thedeparting sun, chill and grey, and silent an

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