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as to be useless, and the fifth is not so large as the
fourth, all the four being bound together with skin
This one powerful toe is armed with a powerful claw,
with which dogs have been ripped up and killed at a
single kick. Thekangaroo is by no means a helpless
creature. He will catch a dog up in his fore-paws,
leap off with it to a neighbouring river, and then hold

    

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it under water until it is drowned. Some kangaroos
invariably make straight for water when pursued.
‘If, says Houssay, ‘he reaches it he enters, and,
thanks to his great height, he is able to go on foot to
a depth where the dogs are obliged to swim. Arrived
there, he plants himself on his two hind legs and his
tail, and, up to his shoulders in the water, awaits the