With Flashlight and Rifle ^ 



have been found capable of bein<^ tamed, the efforts to 

 make domestic animals of them have always fiilcd. We 

 know very little as to how man tamed the camel, our 

 domestic cow. or horse, or in what way the brt^eds with 

 which we are nowadays funiliar came about Whether 

 the horse be the outcome of the; interbreeding of two 

 or of many sjjecies, in any case; its j)resent ty})e is due 

 to thousands ot years ot training and breeding by man. 

 Perha])s the zebra is also destined to undergo a similar 

 development ; but this will not be brought about in a 

 generation, or even in several generations. 



In South Africa ir was observed that zebras allowed 

 thc;mselves to be harnessed with ponies, and seemed 

 relatively docile in their company, but that the moment — 

 and this is the whole point of the thing — the moment hard 

 and continuous work was expected, as trom a horse, they 

 simply became ill, and died of " broken hearts " ! 



The experiences of circus-managers are often interesting 

 to hear of in connection with animals. I have been told 

 by one of them that a male zebra, which had lived many 

 years in thtt menagerie with other zebras, once made its 

 escape and (lisapi)eared somewhere in the menagerie, and 

 C(juld not b(^ caught for some hours. In spite ot the united 

 efforts ol' the assembled circus (•mi)loyes, it was only alter 

 many hours that the dangerous animal was l^rought back 

 to his stall, and then onl\ by dint of surrounding it by 

 boards and bc-ams. 



The men who ])rt;ak-in animals for circus performances 

 are prone to the us(,' of coercion with them, inste.id of 

 trvino- to develop their sagacitv. In the; case ol zebras, 



