Brian Hodgson's Tibetan Mastiffs: twice presented to the Zoological Society of London

• Published in: Archives of Natural History
• Main Authors: Lowther, David, Sylph, Ann, Watson, Mark F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh University Press 2019
• Subjects: Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2019.0586; https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full-xml/10.3366/anh.2019.0586

In November 1828, King George IV presented to the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London a pair of Tibetan Mastiffs (Canis lupus familiaris) sent from Nepal by Brian Houghton Hodgson, the Assistant Resident at the British Residency in Kathmandu. The dogs' stay was brief: within weeks of...