-> Giraffes 



position of the body, as well as by their peculiar " tail 

 language." 



In two cases I noticed the red-billed ox-pecker that 

 true little friend of the rhinoceros in the company of 

 giraffes, to which it offered the same friendly services 

 as to all pachyderms. In a sense giraffes also are 

 pachydermatous. The skin of old bulls has in some 



A PHOTOGRAPH OF GIKAFFKS TAKK.N WITH MY TKI.KPHOTO I.K.VS 



parts such a thickness that it withstands every art of 

 the taxidermist, who finds it one of his most difficult tasks 

 in the tropics, without the employment of salt and alum 

 baths, to preserve the skin for sate transport to museums 

 at home. 



Very few European museums have a stuffed specimen 

 of the huge African male elephant or of the huge old 

 giraffe bull. I have made many efforts to save the skins 



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