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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



or with herds of zebra, hartebeest, or gazelle; for one of 

 the interesting features of African wild life is the close asso- 

 ciation and companionship so often seen between totally 

 different species of game. Wildebeest are as savage as they 

 are suspicious; when wounded they do not hesitate to charge 

 a man who comes close, although of course neither they nor 



iiead of the wildebeest bull shot by Mr. Roosevelt 

 From a photograph by Edmund Heller 



any other antelopes can be called dangerous when in a wild 

 state, any more than moose or other deer can be called dan- 

 gerous; when tame, however, wildebeest are very dangerous 

 indeed, more so than an ordinary domestic bull. The wild, 

 queer-looking creatures prance and rolick and cut strange 

 capers when a herd first makes up its mind to flee from a 

 stranger's approach; and even a solitary bull will sometimes 

 plunge and buck as it starts to gallop off; while a couple 



