Cats Big and Small - Page 6
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America's lion is the puma, which, if men were not there to dispute its path to progress, ought to have a
future, and for this reason that the more varied an animal's diet, the greater that animal’s success in
life. The puma eats anything, from a pig to a porcupine, from a horse to a snail, from a sheep to a bullock.
It is a terrible scourge to ranches, and in olden days exterminated the half-wild horses, which roamed free
in Patagonia.
The one thing in its favor is that in no circumstances will it attack man unless it has to fight
him to save its own life. The tradition is persistent that it will do battle with the jaguar in defense of
the man whom the jaguar seeks to assail.
Prosperity has attended the campaign waged by teeth and claws, and abundant species have arisen to
carryon in lesser ways the tradition of the giants. There is one beast, called the clouded leopard, which
is as much a tree-dweller as a sloth.
The lynx and the caracal are also cats.
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