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in the rhinoceros sheds, and one frequently 
saw them running over the armour-like hide 
of these big beasts, who either did not feel 
them (for they never made any attempt to 
drive them away) or thought them too 
insignificant to notice; but many a one has 
been found crushed as flat as a pancake in 
the straw under the place where the 
rhinoceros has been sleeping. 
Wa" 
THE Cape Jump- 
ing Hare 
has been 
on view at 
the Zoo since 
March, 1899, but 
the one shown in 
the photograph was 
brought to Hng- 
land by a regiment 
recently returned 
Spring 
Hare. 
Animal Life 
A full-grown one is about 20 in. long from 
the nose to the root of the tail, and 
the tail is longer still. When it is bounding 
along the tail is carried upright like a flag, 
not trailing behind it. It lives in colonies, in 
very deep, complex burrows, from which it 
can often be bolted by pouring water down. 
It has (says a writer in ‘Country Life’) the 
Boer dishke to this fluid applied externally. 
It is as destructive 
to crops as a rab- 
bit. Clover, grass, 
and vegetables are 
bitten down short 
and devoured, both 
green and ripe. 
The flesh is, con- 
sequently, very 
good eating indeed. 
Jumping hares are 
only seen about in 
the evening, and 
prefer to be abroad 
Sid 
from the front. 
The follow- 
ing account 
of theanimal 
1s quoted 
from the 
“ Referee ”’ 
“Tt is rather 
a remark- 
able beast, 
with no nea: 
relations, 
another ‘An- 
imal Odd 
Volume,’ 
like the 
kinkajou. It 
is a rodent, 
with the 
usual rodent 
HAIRY-EARED RHINOCEROS. 
at night; conse- 
quently, as 
they stay in 
the burrows 
by day, they 
are difficult 
to shoot. 
Colonial 
boys—boys, 
we mean, 1n 
the English 
sense, not 
Katfir— 
have good 
sport in 
shooting 
them by the 
aid of the 
hghtthrown 
by a bieycle 
teeth, like a 
hare’s or a 
rat’s, but it is built just like a kangaroo. 
Like a kangaroo, it travels by a series of 
extraordinary bounds, and is quite as hard 
to shoot as an ordinary hare. There are 
several kinds of the latter in South Africa, 
but only one jumping hare in the world. 
CAPE JUMPING HARE. 
lamp at 
night. The 
lamp is carried in the left hand, and the 
light is reflected by the eyes of the jumping 
hare; the hares are as bold at meght, when 
man is about, as most nocturnal beasts 
are, Which know well that we cannot see 
them. 
