. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. THE CONIES. 431 sun seemed to inconvenience it greatly, for it stopped at every shady bush; but as soon as we would ad- vance about thirty paces ahead, it would wave its little tail, squeal and trot on to join its Horse. Fi- nally we reached the wagons and then the behavior of the confiding little creature underwent a sudden change. Whether it was due to the presence of the Dogs, which jumped around it barking, or to the un- familiar appearance of the carts, the general aggre- gation of human beings, smells and miscellaneous object
. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. THE CONIES. 431 sun seemed to inconvenience it greatly, for it stopped at every shady bush; but as soon as we would ad- vance about thirty paces ahead, it would wave its little tail, squeal and trot on to join its Horse. Fi- nally we reached the wagons and then the behavior of the confiding little creature underwent a sudden change. Whether it was due to the presence of the Dogs, which jumped around it barking, or to the un- familiar appearance of the carts, the general aggre- gation of human beings, smells and miscellaneous objects which go to make up a camp, I do not know, but our protege was suddenly transformed into a veritable little devil, furiously charging at Men, Dogs and even cart -wheels. We secured it by means of a strap around its neck and shoulders, but it proved very refractory during the operation, jumping into the air, rushing at me and furiously thrusting at my knee with its nose. We .fastened it to a cart-wheel, and it began to quiet down, but whenever ap- proached by Man or Dog it relapsed into its former savagery. As I had feared, it took none of the nourishment pre- pared and offered to it by us; milk would prob- ably have proven ac- ceptable, but unfortu- nately we could not get it, as we had no cows. As all attempts to induce it to eat failed, and we could foresee that if we set it free, it would either miserably starve or breathe its last be- tween the teeth of some Lion or Hyaena, I decid- ed to shoot the forlorn creature, which it would have given me so much pleasure to ; In our zoological gar- dens the majority of Rhinoceroses are good- natured and tame, suffer themselves to be petted, driven back and forth, and generally managed without offering any resistance, and gradually be- come strongly attached to every keeper who treats them judiciously. There is only one case on record in which a captive Rhinoceros exhibited a vicious disposition, and that was where one of
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