HUNTING IN THE SOTIK 4*1 



made for the wide variations among individuals. Ordi- 

 narily tommies are the tamest of the game, with the big 

 gazelle and the zebra next; but no two herds will behave 

 alike; and I have seen a wildebeest bull look at me motion- 

 less within a hundred and fifty yards, while the zebras, 

 tommies, and big gazelles which were his companions fled 

 in panic; and I left him still standing, as I walked after the 

 gazelles, to kill a buck for the table. The game is usually 



Rhino and young 

 From a photograph by Kermil Roosevelt 



sensitive to getting the hunter's wind; but on these plains 

 I have again and again seen game stand looking at us within 

 fairly close range to leeward, and yet on the same day 

 seen the same kind of game flee in mad fright when twice 

 the distance to windward. Sometimes there are inexplicable 

 variations between the conduct of beasts in one locality and 

 in another. In East Africa the hyenas seem only occasion- 

 ally to crunch the long bones of the biggest dead animals; 

 whereas Cuninghame, who pointed out this fact to me, 

 stated that in South Africa the hyenas, of the same kind, 

 always crunched up the big bones, eating both the marrow 

 and fragments of the bone itself. 



