Large herds of buffalo always appear in the neighbourhood, so soon as the vegetation on the Rocky Mountains begins to die out, and the cold sets in.
At the same time these plains were enlivened by an extraordinary number of buffaloes, large herds of wild horses, antelopes, and deer; so that at every moment the hunter's straying eye rested on something to interest him.
Unlike hogdeer, chital often go in large herds, each herd being owned by one big stag, though there may be many smaller stags in it.
Buffaloes were very numerous, in large herds, besides a good many old bulls, either solitary or in small bands of two or three.
As I have said elsewhere, nearly all the game-beasts migrate from their favourite haunts where they have been concentrated in large herds as long as food was plentiful.
As to the series of lakes through which the waters of the Thelon and Dubawnt are discharged into Chesterfield inlet, Inspector Pelletier reports:—“From Beverly lake down to Hudson bay deer were met almost daily, but not in large herds.
They go south in large herds in autumn, and north in spring.
Not very many years ago dugongs were found in large herds, sometimes consisting of two or three hundred individuals, and were so tame that they would even permit themselves to be touched without attempting to escape.
Large herds of these animals, however, have been domesticated, and are used as beasts of burden, while their flesh is said to be almost as tender and well-flavored as beef.
It is found in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and also of North America, where it is called the caribou and generally lives in large herds.
It lives for the most part in wooded plains, and is generally found in large herds, which spend the daytime hiding in the forests, and come out into the open country by night to graze and drink.
The buffalo makes his way to the great plains bordering the Red River and Arkansas; while deer, in large herds, abound on the higher plains.
Towards its southern boundaries the huanacu and the deer--Cervus campestris--in large herds range at large, while the pools and marshes are inhabited by enormous flocks of wild fowl of all descriptions.
The growing tendency of specialization in agriculture, which leads to the maintenance of large herds of cattle, sheep, and hogs, makes infectious diseases more common and more dangerous.
The testimony of many owners of large herds of cattle which have long ago been injected is to the same effect.
At this season, when the animals are in large herds, the bucks utter their calls, as mentioned in the section on Voice.
To give a pastoral air to the scene, large herds of cattle were grazing at no great distance from us.
They were dairy houses, in which the milk of large herds is made into butter.
They go inlarge herds to water about the falls, and as all the passages to the river near that place are narrow and steep, the foremost are pressed into the river by the impatience of those behind.
Large herds of elk also are lying on every point, so gentle that they may be approached within twenty paces without being alarmed.
When the walrus ox gets very old, he swims about by himself as a solitary individual, but otherwise animals of the same age and sex keep together in large herds.
The widely extended grassy plains and forests of North Asia were the proper homeland of this animal, and there it must at one time have wandered about in large herds.
Large herds of cattle and sheep were grazing upon the plain in sight of the mission.
Large herds of fat cattle and horses were grazing upon the luxuriant grasses of the plain, and there were several extensive inclosures sowed in wheat, which presented all the indications of an abundant harvest.
Large herds of cattle were scattered over the valley, greedily cropping the fresh green herbage, which now carpets mountain and plain.
These beautiful animals congregate in large herds on the bare open plains traversed by the Uganda Railway, and probably form the chief food of the lions living in that district.
The does are often to be seen in large herds, and are likewise very beautiful, resembling a fallow deer, but are of a much darker red, striped and spotted with white.
In Asia the horse runs wild in large herds--just as in America.
In Bolivia there is a large kind known as the Tarush; and on the pampas of Buenos Ayres and Patagonia is a kind called Guazuti, which associates in large herds, and is remarkable for the powerful odour emitted by the bucks.
Its home is Southern Africa, where it is still found in large herds; and its flesh affords a plentiful subsistence both to travellers and the half-savage natives of the land.
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