. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Animal Anecdotes 85 Eailway trains have often been stopped by curious obstacles, including ants An elephantine /gee pa„e 54 0f this Volume), but obstruction. v , ,, , . , ' , -, probably no engme-dnver has had a more surprising experience than that which recently befell a man employed upon the Assam line. He turned a corner suddenly —to find himself just behind a troop of savage elephants. The great creatures, evidently finding the iron road a pleasant path for travelling, had spread them- selves across it, making such a v»
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Animal Anecdotes 85 Eailway trains have often been stopped by curious obstacles, including ants An elephantine /gee pa„e 54 0f this Volume), but obstruction. v , ,, , . , ' , -, probably no engme-dnver has had a more surprising experience than that which recently befell a man employed upon the Assam line. He turned a corner suddenly —to find himself just behind a troop of savage elephants. The great creatures, evidently finding the iron road a pleasant path for travelling, had spread them- selves across it, making such a v» considerable ob- struction that the ^ ^wf j train was driven off the rails before t ?•? A the driver could \ i. jPi bring it to a ^"v*^1^^/ standstill. Then ensued confusion amongst the pas- sengers, but still more amongst the elephants. Hap- pily the former were scarcely hurt; the latter rled in wild con- fusion, utterly terrified by an enemy they did not Mil. Oswald Lattee, writing on the subject of wasps finding their way home, The Wasp and „ j once had an 0 por. his Home J . , tunity of seeing how wasps take their bearings. A lucky accident revealed a nest in an old meat-tin that had been thrown into a ditch. Wishing to observe the operations somewhat more comfortably, I cautiously lifted the tin on to the bank, a distance of two or three yards. The wasps that were abroad at the moment of removal all came straight back to the old spot in the ditch, and were evidently perplexed at the absence of their nest, but after some search most of them discovered it in its new position. Those, however, which were with- in noticed, as • \.i soon as they came to the exit preparatory to taking flight, that a change had occurred, and paused upon the threshold, look- ing about and waving their antennae ; then they took wing and hovered over the tin, flying to and fro in ever- increasing swings, noting carefully the exact surround- ings. Soon their oscillations b
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