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flamingoes. On the edge of the forest, high in the spreading 

 branches of the great trees, baboons, Sykes's monkeys and 

 gray monkeys chattered, hyraxes and big-eyed lemurs 





FIG. i. Elephants in the forest. 



called, and in the shadow lurked stealthy pythons, mam- 

 bas, and agile lizards. 



Preying on this great concourse of animal life were many 

 carnivorous mammals such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, 

 hyenas, serval and civet cats, jackals, wild dogs, and 

 foxes, as well as such large carnivorous birds as eagles, 

 vultures, and hawks. In the midst of this concentration of 

 plant and animal life our camp was located, yet in the 

 midst of all this seeming drama there appeared to be only 

 peace. 



As if in obedience to unseen forces, this animal on the 

 plain, that in the jungle, the great and the small, adjusted 

 themselves with relation to each other, much as colloids 

 are spaced by electric charge. 



But the quiet about Maji Moto camp was like the quiet 

 before a great battle, because, like the ether that is per- 

 meated with ether waves, the air in which these myriads 

 of animals were enveloped carried sound waves of various 

 lengths, chemical emanations of various kinds, and light 

 waves. 



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