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have not been shot in India for many years. 

 Yet, as we know that elephants live for a 

 hundred years or more, and as "rogues "are 

 rarely in their first youth when shot, this 

 objection does not seem insuperable. Some 

 doubt exists on the question of whether the 

 "rogue" elephant is bodily expelled from the 

 herd in the first instance, and the episode has 

 never been actually witnessed, or has, at any 

 rate, not been described by anyone who pre- 

 tends to have seen it. It is, however, well 

 known that "rogues" often try to rejoin the 

 polite society of their kind, but that they are not 

 readmitted to the community, being regarded 

 by their fellows as outcasts for life. General 

 Hutchinson's view of the "rogue" is that he has 

 become solitary and morose because no longer 

 attractive to the females, and is, so to speak, 

 cut out by the younger generation. 



Of the mind of the elephant we know, as in 

 the case of other animals, less than we do of 

 its body. There is, in fact, considerable 

 difference of opinion as to whether it should 

 be regarded as clever or stupid. Some even 

 of those who know it in its own home look 

 with grave doubt on the many stories told ot 

 its marvellous intelligence as gross exaggera- 

 tion. They point, in support of their less 

 flattering opinion, to the small size of its brain 

 and to the readiness with which it allows itself 



