THE LIFE OF MAMMALS 
can be found in the literature of natural history than the pic- 
tures, — except that by Diirer, who knew how to draw animals, 
— descriptions, and speculations of that century upon this beast, 
which writers identified with a Behemoth, the Unicorn, and 
what not? A sample of the cream of it may be found in old 
Topsell’s book.'* The animal lives well in confinement and 
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HAIRY-EARED VARIETY OF THE SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS. 
occasionally reproduces itself, — one little one at a birth is the 
tule of the whole family. 
The hunting of this rhinoceros is nowadays possible only by riding on 
an elephant, and the sport is usually tame. Its first effort is to get away, 
and it bolts, squealing and grunting with fright, but if wounded and stopped 
it will resist desperately, as will almost any other beast brought to a corner, 
and may charge open-mouthed, using its tushes like a boar and inflicting 
fearful cuts. Great scars show how severely the bulls punish each other 
in their jealous fights. 
Smaller and lighter gray in color, and with the folds of its 
armor less prominent and tuberculous, the lesser or Javan rhi- 
noceros has a much wider range, since it is found from Bengal 
eastward into Burma, and southward to Java and Borneo. It 
dwells mainly in the coastal forests, and feeds on leaves and 
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