All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . KING VULTURES INDIAN ELEPHANT AND YOUNG. THE ELEPHANT. The Elephant has a greater hold upon the friendship of the world thanany other animal. Story-books are full of instances of its wonderful intelli-gence and strength. Then again, its huge size makes it so imposing that onecannot possibly behold it without awe. Its friendship and fidelity to manare well known, also its wonderful memory, recognizing friends sometimesafter years of separation. The question is often asked if the elephant is moresagacious than the dog, and Sir Samuel Bak
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . KING VULTURES INDIAN ELEPHANT AND YOUNG. THE ELEPHANT. The Elephant has a greater hold upon the friendship of the world thanany other animal. Story-books are full of instances of its wonderful intelli-gence and strength. Then again, its huge size makes it so imposing that onecannot possibly behold it without awe. Its friendship and fidelity to manare well known, also its wonderful memory, recognizing friends sometimesafter years of separation. The question is often asked if the elephant is moresagacious than the dog, and Sir Samuel Baker has given a good answer: The dog is a mans friend, the elephant is his slave. It is very doubtfulif an elephant would save its master from attacks of an enemy such as a doghas been known to do. The elephant moves to orders obediently enough,but never will do anything of its own accord. The two great branches of the elephant tribe are the Indian and Africanspecies. Their habits are much the same, though they differ greatly in African elephant is the larger
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