DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 29 



and recruits must be obtained by fresh captures 

 from the jungle. They are taken by the use of 

 tame elephants. They are driven into stockades 

 and fastened and kept there till hunger and fa- 

 tigue overcome them. 



The elephant is used in India to handle timbers. 

 It uses its proboscis, or trunk, which is an exag- 

 gerated nose. The proboscis is a wonderfully 

 adaptive organ. It can be used to handle saw- 

 logs or to pick up a pin. 



Elephants seldom lie down. They sleep stand- 

 ing up. Cases have been known where elephants 

 have remained standing even after they were 

 dead. 



There is no animal domesticated by man that 

 is in its natural disposition so well adapted for 

 domestication as the elephant. It has taken thou- 

 sands of years to make the dog what it is. But 

 the elephant can^e taken right out of the jungle 

 and in a few months it will undergo all the changes 

 necessary to make it an obedient, intelligent, and 

 affectionate servant. Elephants are intelligent 

 animals, with good memories and strong feelings 

 of affection and revenge. They remember kind- 

 ness and injuries a long time. 



Elephants were formerly found in every conti- 

 nent, except Australia. The mammoth was the 

 European elephant, and the mastodon lived in 

 both North and South America. These animals 

 disappeared from the earth about the time of the 

 appearance of the human species. 



