LIFEPHANTIP 2 A3% 
Nshed. The appearance ci the Asiatic Elephant is familiar <o all. 
Though rarely breeding in captivity. it has been domesticated from 
the most remete antiquity, and is still extensively used in the East 
as a beast of burden. In the wild state it is gregarious, associating 
in herds of ten. twenty, or more individuals, and though it may, 
under certain circumstances. become dangerous. it is generally 
inoffensive and even timid. fond ci shade and solitude and the 
neizhbourhood ci water. The height of the male at the shoulder 
when full grown is usually from $ to 10 feet, but occasionally as 
much as 1]. The female is somewhat smaller. 
In the African Elephant (£. 27rieanus) the molars (Fig. 152: are 
ef ecarse constrnetion, with fewer and larger plates and thicker 
enamel. Ridge-formula: 3. 5. 7, 7. >. 10. _ The plates not 
flattened, but thicker in the middle than at the edges. so that their 
worn grinding suriaces are lozenge-shaped. Ears very large. The 
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(From Owen.) 
h. and the lower sil: the onter bonier. 
upper and lower marzgirs ¢i the end of the trunk forming iv: 
nearly equal prehensile ics. But three bests on the hind foot. 
This species now inhabits the wooded districts of the whole oi 
Afiea south <i the except where i: has been driven away 
by human serlements. Fossil remains of Pleiscocene age. undis- 
tinguishable specifically, have been Zound in Alzeria, 
Sealy. Ir was trained for war and show by the ancient Cartha- 
gimians and Romans, and recent experience of the species in ay 
in Haglan! shows that it is as mnvelizent as its 
net more so. while surpassing it in evurage. av 
Nevertheless. in modern times, no people in Africa have been 
sufticiently civiised or enterp: Tsing To eare to train it tor domestic 
yourmeses. It is buntea chiefly for the sake of the ivory ¢f its 
immense tusss. of which it vVields the principal source of supply to 
the European market, and the cexre to obtain which is rapidly 
leading to the extermination ci the species. Im size the male 
/ rpasses that of Asis. but the female js 
sumierence of the fore Ioct is halt the 
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