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Tail

Dec 17' 71. Hyæna, as Mr B. informs me, as one so fully & mutually conscious of the power of each others jaw, that they know that if one got the leg of the other into its jaw, it wd be crushed — Hence when fighting they kneel with their legs turned in as much as possible — & with their body curved inward, so as to present no salient point, & the tail is then closely tucked in.— they approach each other sideways & even sometimes partly backwards in their peculiar attitude.—

Deer when savage & fighting tuck in their tail, but I have not been able to ascertain whether they do this when withdrawing hinder quarters.—

[Expression, pp. 123-4.]

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Even the H. when attacking its comrade anoth with its [enormous] mouth widely open draw back its sack, case pa like as to the remark, part like a horse.