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are not abnormal, they are simply the tusks of a good healthy bull who has 

 been intelligent and lucky enough to keep his life until his ivory was full- 

 grown. 



It would seem worth while that the world's permanent record of ele- 

 phant life should contain a specimen that illustrates the fullest develop- 

 ment of the African species, the finest living representative of this race of 

 animals. Such an elephant can be secured now, but it will soon be ever- 

 lastingly too late, for the remaining monster specimens will be killed for 

 their ivorv. 



Copyright by Carl E. Akeley 

 An elephant pit comi)lcte(l but a few weeks, yet effectively concealed even to the 

 observing eye by a new growth of vegetation. The pit is a hidden menace to the hunter 

 as well as to elephants. It is somcitimes furnished at the bottom with sharp-pointed stakes 

 but fortunately this is not always true so that a man may fall into one with no more 

 serious result than a good shaking up 



