ANCIENT PARK CATTLE.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR-1
SIR,—In an article under the above heading in your issue of December 3rd, 1904, the following sentence occurs : " In the forests they were exposed to the attacks of wolves, which killed off their calves, and left that ineradicable habit of concealing the young noted in the cows at Chillingham." Was not this habit originally common to all cattle P Here, in the South African Karoo, where the cows generally calve in the veld, they invariably hide their calves, so that the herds have to watch them sometimes for days, and follow them surreptitiously, to find out where the calves are hidden. The cause of this is, no doubt, the same,—it is a measure Of precaution against beasts of prey. It is, I suppose, not more than forty or fifty years since wolves were exterminated in this part of the country.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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