. Portraits at the zoo . a, andthe mother leaves the herd for a time and stays near thelittle one, to whom she pays constant visits, feeding 59 THE DWARF BUFFALO and licking it just as we see the cows lick their owncalves. Like all other wild animals, buffaloes have manyenemies; but the greatest and most dreaded enemy ofthe buffalo is the lion. The lion is particularly fond of alittle fresh buffalo meat, and will dare a great deal toget it. There has been many a terrible fight between abuffalo and a lion. In most cases the lion wins; this isgenerally when he has been able to make the first att
. Portraits at the zoo . a, andthe mother leaves the herd for a time and stays near thelittle one, to whom she pays constant visits, feeding 59 THE DWARF BUFFALO and licking it just as we see the cows lick their owncalves. Like all other wild animals, buffaloes have manyenemies; but the greatest and most dreaded enemy ofthe buffalo is the lion. The lion is particularly fond of alittle fresh buffalo meat, and will dare a great deal toget it. There has been many a terrible fight between abuffalo and a lion. In most cases the lion wins; this isgenerally when he has been able to make the first in some cases even the lion gets the worst of it, for,if the buffalo can manage to give him one good blow withhis head, he is usually able to give him a second beforethe lion can recover himself. And two such blows from abuffalo are fatal. The Dwarf Buffalo, although the smallest of theAfrican buffaloes, is every bit as strong, as pugnacious,and as dangerous as all his other relatives, and will fightto the RY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTIUDEN THE BROWN BEAR THE Brown Bear lives in Northern Europe, and is foundin Asia as far as the Himalayas. It was at one timefound in the British Isles, but the last one was killed in theyear 1057, in Scotland. It is a big, heavy animal; whenfull grown its length is often from five to seven feet, and itwill sometimes weigh as much as six or seven hundredpounds. Although a rather slow-moving animal, this bear is adangerous foe when very hungry or at close quarters withan enemy. He is tremendously strong, and has a habit ofdirecting all his blows at a mans head. He has a widehead, a short thick neck, a snout-like nose, a big mouthfull of large, strong teeth, thick short sturdy legs, and bigfeet with claws of moderate length, which do not retract,and make a curious tapping sound as he walks on hardground. The fur is a dark brown, and very thick and shaggy;beneath this is another coat of woolly under-fur, muchfiner. The colour of
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