. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 48G THE CLOVEN-HOOFED Range and Habits The range of the Cape Buffalo com- of the Cape prises, like that of the Giraffe, the Buffalo. greater part of the eastern half of Africa. In Cape Colony it has, together with the few surviving Elephants of that country, only a restricted and quite isolated habitat between the bays of Mossel and Algoa. The southern boundary of its present range might be described by a line running along the Cubangu to
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 48G THE CLOVEN-HOOFED Range and Habits The range of the Cape Buffalo com- of the Cape prises, like that of the Giraffe, the Buffalo. greater part of the eastern half of Africa. In Cape Colony it has, together with the few surviving Elephants of that country, only a restricted and quite isolated habitat between the bays of Mossel and Algoa. The southern boundary of its present range might be described by a line running along the Cubangu to the Ngami lake; thence eastward to the Limpopo and to the east of the Transvaal; thence it would run south to about the bay of St. Lucia. To the north of this line it is found in most of the African territory, up to about the sixteenth parallel of north latitude. It affects the plain more than the mountains, and for its per- manent abode it always selects a locality where water is plentiful. The Cape Buffalo is gregarious by nature, and constantly lives in association with its own kind, in bands of from thirty to sixty in regions where it is pursued, and in herds numbering hundreds or even thousands in those localities in which it is little or not at all molested. During the hot hours of the day the Cape Buffalo lies in its retreat still and motionless, sleeping or sometimes ruminating; it not infrequently makes its resting place in a pool of water or a mud-hole, for this reason often appearing covered with a goodly crust of mud. In the late afternoon or toward even- ing it rises, and grazes at intervals from that time till early morning, not in leisurely comfort, like other Oxen, but by fits and starts. With a restless haste, driving away the obnoxious Flies, and often uttering its dull growl, it sways from side to side its ever damp, thick muzzle, pricks up its broad ears, deco- rated with a bristly fringe of hair, and lashes its flanks nervously with its tufted tail. Appare
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