ITS APTITUDE IN LEARNING. 



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clever an animal as the Elephant. In all work which requires the ap- 

 plication of great strength combined with singular judgment, the Ele- 

 phant is supreme, but as a mere puller and hauler it is of no very great 

 value. lu piling logs, for example, the Elephant soon learns the proper 

 mode of arrangement, and will place them upon each other with a reg- 

 ularity that wouM not be surpassed by human workmen. Sir Emerson 



The Asiatic Elephant {Elephas Indicus). 



Tennent mentions a pair of Elephants that were accustomed to labor 

 conjointly, and which had been taught to raise their wood-piles to a con- 

 siderable height by constructing an inclined plane of sloping beams, and 

 rolling the logs up the beams. 



There are two modes of capturing the Asiatic Elephant, the one by 

 pursuing solitary individuals and binding them with ropes as they wan- 

 der at will through the forests, and the othc-r by driving a herd of Ele- 



