. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. ELEPHANT, TAPIR, HYRAX, RHINOCEROS 153. Phato h M. E. F. Baird, Esq. TIMBER-ELEPHANTS Thh photograph ivas taken at LakoUyin Upper Siam. Notice the large teak log in the foreground cutta which stands 11 feet 3 inches at the shoulder. In the size of its tusks the African ele- phant far surpasses the Asiatic species. In India a pair of tusks measuring S feet in length and weighing 70 lbs. the pair would, I think, be considered large, though an elephant was killed by Sir Victor Brooke in the Garo Hills with a single tusk measuring 8 feet in length, 17 inches in
. Mammals of other lands;. Mammals. ELEPHANT, TAPIR, HYRAX, RHINOCEROS 153. Phato h M. E. F. Baird, Esq. TIMBER-ELEPHANTS Thh photograph ivas taken at LakoUyin Upper Siam. Notice the large teak log in the foreground cutta which stands 11 feet 3 inches at the shoulder. In the size of its tusks the African ele- phant far surpasses the Asiatic species. In India a pair of tusks measuring S feet in length and weighing 70 lbs. the pair would, I think, be considered large, though an elephant was killed by Sir Victor Brooke in the Garo Hills with a single tusk measuring 8 feet in length, 17 inches in circumference, and weighing 90 lbs., and a few tusks even exceeding these dimensions have been recorded. In Southern Africa the tusks of full-grown bull elephants usually weigh from 80 to 120 lbs. the pair, and measure about 6 feet in length, with a circumference of from 16 to 18 inches ; but these weights and measurements have often been much exceeded, and in my own experience I have known of two pairs of elephants' tusks having been obtained south of the Zambesi, each of which weighed slightly over 300 lbs., each tusk measuring upwards of 9 feet in length, whilst a single tusk brought from the neighbourhood of Lake Ngami in 1873 weighed 174 lbs. The average weight of cow-elephant tusks in Southern Africa is from 20 to 30 lbs. the pair, but I have seen the tusk of a cow elephant killed in Matabililand which weighed 39 lbs. and measured over 6 feet in length, whilst its fellow almost equaled it in size and weight. In North Central Africa, according to Sir Samuel Baker, the tusks of full-grown elephants average about 140 lbs. the pair, and tusks weighing upwards of 100 lbs. each are not at all uncommon, whilst many of a much greater size have been obtained. Until quite recently a tusk in the possession of Sir E. G. Loder, which weighs 184 lbs. and measures 9 feet 5 inches in length, with a circumference of 22^ inches, was supposed to be the largest in existence; but in 1899 two
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