The Elephant 



small parties which scatter through a district, keeping up communication, 

 however, among themselves, in so far that they leave the locality, if not 

 quite together, at all events within a day or two, such portions of the herd 

 as have been left behind following in the tracks of the rest. 



To a certain extent they vary their behaviour in different districts, 

 according to whether there are natives with skill in the chase ; their 

 intelligence enabling them to discriminate between localities where they 



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Fig. z. — Elephants photographed by Lord Dclamere on the lower slopes of Mount Marsabit, in the 

 Rcndile Country, S.E. of Lake Rudolph. 



are in danger of attack and those where they are not so — the same herd 

 being more wary in the former case than under safer conditions. In some 

 districts they devastate the natives' crops almost with impunity. 



A remarkable illustration of the superiority of the elephant in sagacity 

 over all other wild animals with which I am acquainted is furnished by its 

 capacity for inferring possible danger to itself from the discovery of the 

 remains of one of its own species. If come upon in any stage of decay 

 short of the bones being absolutely bleached clean, these create alarm in 



