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| 25 | 351 | That is why they are View more quotes about often">often used in hunting. |
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| 25 | 348 | Then its muzzle was almost at my feet. |
| 25 | 349 | Its body literally rubbed against my leg as it snaked past me, and it continued on its way. |
| 25 | 350 | I knew little about sleen, but I did know it was the planet's most adept, reliable, tenacious tracker. |
| 25 | 351 | That is why they are often used in hunting. |
| 25 | 352 | A flaw, or virtue, of the sleen as a hunter is its single-mindedness. |
| 25 | 353 | As a flaw, once fastened on a scent, and committed to it, it will ignore better, easier game for less desirable, more-difficult-to-obtain game; on the other hand, once committed to a scent, it is likely to pursue it relentlessly, which, if one is after a particular quarry, might be, I suppose, accounted a virtue. |
| 25 | 354 | As noted, the sleen, in the wild, is predominantly nocturnal, usually emerging from its burrow at dusk, and returning to it in the early morning. |