CLASS MAMMALS: ORDER PROBOSCIDEA. 



Fig. 198. 



81 



Mg ' m - 



Elephas africanus, African Elephant. 



Asiatic species is alone tamed at the present day.* 

 concave forehead, 

 small ears, and the 

 enamel of the teeth 

 arranged in trans- 

 verse bands. * The 

 African species has 

 a convex forehead, 

 enormous ears, and 

 the enamel of the 

 teeth lozen ge- 

 shaped. Both sexes 

 have tusks, the 

 male's often being 

 eight feet long and 

 weighing a hundred 

 pounds. 



It has a 



E. indlcw, Asiatic Elephant. 



* Its intelligence is sometimes almost human. It can he taught to lay stone wall, 

 and to pile logs uniformly, rolling-them up an inclined plane. It is even entrusted 

 with the care of youner children the huge nurse being lavish in its attentions, and 

 when its charge crawls between its legs, moving with the utmost caution, and, with 

 its trunk, carefully lifting the child out of the way. Tennant, in his work on Ceylon 



