180 ANIMALS OF THE PAST 
and as Jumbo stood eleven feet high, the rule 
of three applied to this thigh-bone would give 
the living animal a height of thirteen feet 
eight inches. The height of this specimen is 
given as thirteen feet in its bones, with an es- 
timate of fourteen feet in its clothes; but as the 
skeleton is obviously mounted altogether too 
high, it is pretty safe to say that thirteen feet 
is a good, fair allowance for the height of this 
animal when alive. As for the majority of 
mammoths, they would not average more than 
nine or ten feet high. Sir Samuel Baker tells 
us that he has seen plenty of wild African ele- 
phants that would exceed Jumbo by a foot or 
more, and while this must be accepted with — | 
caution, since unfortunately he neglected to 
put a tape-line on them, yet Mr. Thomas 
Baines did measure a specimen twelve feet 
high. This, coupled with Sir Samuel’s state- 
ment, indicates that there is not so much dif- 
ay’ 
ference between the mammoth and the ele- _ 
phant as there might be. This applies to the 
mammoth par excellence, the species known 
scientifically as Hlephas primigenius, whose 
remains are found in many parts of the North- 
