. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE HORXED AXIMALS—OX TRIBE. 475 tamed animals, the flesh of which, as we believe, is sufficient to provide the wigwams of the Indians into all ; Freiherr Max von Thielmann, who hunted in the far west in 1S75, recorded even at that date a differ- ent experience. He expressed it in the following words: "The blame for greater part of the extermi- nation of the Buffalo may be laid at the door of the three railroads, which traverse t
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE HORXED AXIMALS—OX TRIBE. 475 tamed animals, the flesh of which, as we believe, is sufficient to provide the wigwams of the Indians into all ; Freiherr Max von Thielmann, who hunted in the far west in 1S75, recorded even at that date a differ- ent experience. He expressed it in the following words: "The blame for greater part of the extermi- nation of the Buffalo may be laid at the door of the three railroads, which traverse the prairie from the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains. In the begin- ning of this decade (the seventies) successful hunts could be arranged between the Union Pacific and the Kansas Pacific roads, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road sent 200,000 skins east during the first year of its existence; but now the Buffalo has per- their offspring, until the latter are strong enough to join the herd. From this time on the bulls assume the protectorship of the calves, though the latter are wont to follow their mothers faithfully, until they are supplanted by their younger brothers or sisters. Physical Features The Bison moves with considerable . and Character- agility in spite of its clumsy appear- isticsoftheBison. ance; notwithstanding the shortness of its legs it covers considerable distances in a brief time. Its movements are curiously abrupt, and when hurried, the animals describe queer wavy lines of motion, produced by uplifting the bulk of the body alternately in front and behind. The Bison swims with the same vigor and endurance which. THE GAYAL. A noble handsome species of Oxen found both wild and domesticated in the mountainous regions of .Assam from eastern Bengal east to Burmah. The figure, well shown in the picture, suggests strength, and besides the massive body the broad horns are especially noteworthy features of the animal. {Bosfronta and all the country forehead
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