AND PERSONALITY 



times or at all times, what kind of grass it would eat, whether 

 a pink or a blue ribbon would be more becoming, and whether 

 it missed its mother. In fact, Mrs. Crile worried over every- 



FIG. 7. A comparison of a three-weeks-old Thomson's gazelle and a Mbulu 

 infant. (Mbulu infant photograph by Frank Anderson.) 



thing but its education, and this proved to be the most 

 interesting thing about this young Tommie. 



Because of its wild nature it had only two reactions. 

 When the unusual occurred it crouched and froze, or ran, 

 but always with head up and ears, eyes, and nose alert. 

 When we took Tommie out in the open area about the 

 camp it stood utterly still, moving its tense ears and eyes 

 and nose in a slow semicircle all the way around to the 

 middle of its back, then slowly around on the other side, 

 completing the circle. It seemed most attracted to the far 

 part of the horizon, the open grazing area. As it grew 

 stronger it ate grass cautiously, raising its head every few 

 seconds and sweeping the horizon, forward to both sides, 

 then backward. After doing this several times it would walk 

 forward a short distance and then repeat the process. In 

 other words, it wrote upon its keen brain a series of circles, 

 and it could not have lost its retracing steps. 



The three-weeks-old Thomson's gazelle and the three- 



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