THE SUDAN AFRICAN ELEPHANT 



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Zoological Park were caught on the Blue Nile, in 1905, soon 

 after they were born. This species is specially distinguished 

 by its enormous ears. It attains a shoulder height of 11 feet 

 4 inches. The enormous world's-best-record pair of tusks in 



PYGMY AFRICAN ELEPHANT. 



Adult male type. Specimen in the New York Zoological Park. 



the National Collection of Heads and Horns, New York 

 Zoological Park, from this species, have a length on the curve 

 of 11 feet 5 l /2 inches, and the pair weigh 292 pounds. Their 

 greatest circumference is 18 inches, and in curves and sym- 

 metry they are remarkably beautiful. 



"Jumbo" was the largest African elephant known in cap- 

 tivily during historic times. His advertised "showman" 



