3 o6 HOOFED ANIMALS 



The Arnee lives in herds, often numbering fifty animals, 

 and as they do not fight shy of settled districts they often 

 break into cultivated land and work considerable damage. 

 In disposition the animal is considered the fiercest and 

 most dangerous of the Bovidae ; it will attack and 

 knock down an elephant ; and the tiger is by no means 

 easy in its mind when in the Buffalo's vicinity. Hunting 

 the animal in the low, damp jungles is consequently a 

 sport not to be lightly undertaken. The grass and reeds 

 usually hide even a fairly sized herd, making it exceed- 

 ingly difficult to get a shot at any particular beast. 



The animal is not domesticated to any large extent, and 

 in subjection will not interbreed with the humped cattle. 

 The wild species is not found outside Hindostan, and any 

 similar animals in Further India and Malaysia are only the 

 descendants of once domesticated Buffaloes. 



CAPE BUFFALO (Bos caffer). 



Of all the species and varieties of the Ox tribe in Africa, 

 and they are many, the Cape or Black Buffalo is the most 

 formidable. It is no whit better than its slightly bigger 

 Indian relative, though from its appearance one might 



judge it to be 

 worse. The 

 chief features 

 of this African 

 Buffalo are the 

 broad muzzle, 

 large ears, and 

 the remarkable 

 manner in 

 which in the 



HORNS OF THE CAPE BUFFALO. bulls the baSCS 



of the horns 



are flattened out. This horny helmet, from under which 

 twinkle little fierce eyes, gives the animal a lowering, sullen 

 aspect, in strict keeping with its real disposition. 



Hunters sometimes assert that the Arnee will never charge 

 a human being who will face it ; but the Cape Buffalo knows 



