 | Sir John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby - Zoology - 1829 - 418 pages
...into a group, crowd nearer and nearer together as their companions fall around them ; but should they discover their enemies by sight or by their sense of smell, which is very acute, the whole herd seek for safety by instant flight. The bulls, however, are very irascible,... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 1178 pages
...thunder, and crowd nearer and nearer together as their companions fall around them; but should they discover their enemies by sight or by their sense of smell which is very acute, the whole herd seek for safety by instant flight. The bulls, however, are very irascible,... | |
 | 1840 - 526 pages
...into a group, crowd nearer and nearer together as their companions fall around them ; but should they discover their enemies by sight, or by their sense of smell, which is very acute, the whole herd seek for safety by instant flight. The bulls however are very irascible,... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 522 pages
...into a group, crowd nearer and nearer together as their companions fall around them; but should they discover their enemies by sight, or by their sense of smell, which is very acute, the whole herd seek for safety by instant (light. The bulls however are very irascible,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 1046 pages
...into a group, crowd nearer and nearer together as their companions fall around them ; but should they discover their enemies by sight, or by their sense of smell, which is very acute, the whole herd seek for safety by instant flight. The bulls however are very irascible,... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1852 - 774 pages
...America, owing to its being tainted with a strong flavor of musk, which is more particularly the case with bulls. Although it exceeds the weight of the caribou...whose life is placed in great jeopardy, unless he possesses both activity and presence of mind. The musk-ox inhabits the hilly, barren grounds between... | |
 | United States. Patent Office - Patents - 1852 - 716 pages
...rocky situation they are in the habit of frequenting, it is the most easy matter to approach them; nnd if the hunter has only the precaution to keep himself...whose life is placed in great jeopardy, unless he possesses both activity and presence of mind. The musk-ox inhabits the hilly, barren grounds between... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 802 pages
...owing to its being tainted with a strong flavor of •musk, which is more particularly the case with bulls. Although it exceeds the weight of the caribou...whose life is placed in great jeopardy, unless he possesses both activity and presence of mind. The musk-ox inhabits the hilly, barren grounds between... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1856 - 932 pages
...¡-.-liotwithstanding the shortness of their legs, they can run extremely fast. Should they, .^Aowever, discover tfieir enemies by sight, or by their sense of smell, which is extremely pliiacute, the cows irmnediately have recourse to flight; while the bulls, being of a more ^.irascible... | |
 | Geology - 1857 - 526 pages
...into a group, crowd nearer and nearer together, as their companions fall around them ; but should they discover their enemies by sight, or by their sense of smell which is very acute, the whole herd seek for safety by instant flight. The bulls, however, are very irascible,... | |
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If the hunters keep themselves concealed when they fire upon a herd of musk-oxen, the poor animals mistake the noise for thunder, and, forming themselves into a group, crowd nearer and nearer together as their companions fall around them ; but should... 
