Young African elephant 



Co/iijrii/lil 1)1/ Carl E. Akeley 



and more curved. In several of the so-called "Keitloa" type seen, the 

 posterior horn was about as long as the anterior. 



In this country we found that rhinos sleep during the day, u.sually many 

 miles away from any drinking-pool or other water. They sleep however 

 very intermittently, getting up every now and then to look around and then 

 lie down again. They are likely to sleep with back to the wind which 

 enables them to look down wind, their acute sense of smell protecting them 

 to the rear. This hal)it of sleeping during the day is possibly due to their 

 having been so persistently hunted. We were told that in uiihunted 

 countries rhinos feed a great deal during the day and sleep at night. 



In the expedition of 1909 our party had permission to shoot in several 

 districts which otherwise woidd have been reserved. This was through the 

 courtesy of the officials of the British East African government. The 

 permission was granted through letters which the American Museum of 

 Natural History had kindly given to us and of course any animal shot in 

 a reservation became the property of the Museum and de\'oted to scientific 

 purposes. As a result of this agreement we secured some twenty specimens. 



On the Usha (Ji.shu plateau toward Mount Elgon, I believe rhinos were 

 once very plentiful, but we saw few and a trip there would probably not 

 now pay for the e.xpen.se entailed. I understand however that rhinos abound 

 in the Sugota and Jubaland game reserve, recently opened to sportsmen, and 

 I am sure that a trip to the east and south of Lake Rudolf would result 

 in securing large specimens. This ground has been very little shot over on 

 account of its inaccessibility and the relati\ c e\i)ense of an (•xi)('dition. 



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