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themselves, and perfect sang-froid. The stamping of the fore- 

 feet and the tossing of the head by the mother were amusingly 

 imitated by the hornless and defenceless kid. At the top of the 

 cliff in the second series, when the nearest approach was gained, 

 the hard breathing of the mother betrayed considerable excite- 

 ment and anxiety about the kid, so that the appearance of indif- 

 ference may not have been real, but rather due to the slowness 

 of movement and to absence of any external evidence of excite- 

 ment. 



The whole story proves that the first instinct of these slow- 

 moving animals is to find security in a precipice near by, and that 

 the second is to seek one of their old-established trails and go 

 oft' into a distant feeding ground. 



