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The Living Animals of the World 



CAPE BUFFALO. 



Notice the striking difference depicted on this p.ige between the two ppecies of btilfalo — tlie 



Indian and the Cajie. 



with its horns, but will kneel upon 

 mutilated remains are beyond recog- 

 nition." 



The true Indian buffalo is usually 

 shot from tho back of an elephant. 

 Hunting it on foot is dangerous in 

 the extreme, for the buffalo can crasli 

 through obstacles which would ])revent 

 any man from making his way through 

 them when escaping. When domesti- 

 cated, the Indian buffalo loses most 

 traces tif its savageness ; it is haliitually 

 managed liy the children, who take 

 the herds out to graze in tlie jungle, 

 and drive them liack, often riding on 

 one of the bulls, at night. They 

 dislike Europeans, and often show 

 this by attacking them ; but other- 

 wise they are quite tame, and are 

 docile when in harness or carrying 

 burdens. The buffalo's milk is very 

 rich, and makes a much larger per- 



the 



Tlie buffaloes of Ceylon 

 are the same as those of 

 India, but the horns are 

 inferior in size. " The charge 

 of a buffalo is a serious 

 matter,'' says Sir Samuel 

 IJaker. "jMany animals charge 

 when infuriated, but they can 

 generally be turned aside by 

 the stunning blow of a rifle- 

 shot, even if they be not 

 mortally wounded. iiut a 

 buffalo is a deyil incarnate 

 when it has once decided on 

 I he offensive; nothing will 

 turn it. It must be actually 

 stop})ed by death, sudden and 

 instantaneous, as nothing else 

 will stop it. If not killed, 

 it will assuredly destroy its 

 adversary. There is no creature 

 in existence so determined 

 to stamp the life out of its 

 opponents, and the intensity 

 of its fury is unsurpassed 

 when a wounded bull rushes 

 forward upon its last desperate 

 charge. Should it succeed in 

 overthrowing its antagonist, it 

 will not only gore the body 

 lifeless form, ana sti'.mi) it with its hoofs till the 



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Fholo hii L. Mcdlan.l, F.Z.S.] [js„,.th Fiachlcj. 



DOMESTICATED INDIAN nUFTALO. 

 is animal is found as a v ild and domesticated species in Indha. It is valuable as a 

 hcast of draught and for tho daii-y. 



