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A TREATISE ON ELEPHANTS. 
The skeleton gives support to the animal frame, and affords 
fixed objects for the attachment of various parts. In order to admit 
of motion, the bones are connected one to another by means of 
strong bands known as ligaments. 
Fig. 29. — Skull of elephant. 
Locomotion is effected by means of muscles, which have usually 
two separate attachments to bones, so that when they contract, they 
become shorter and broader, and the points of attachment are thus 
brought nearer. 
Articulations. — The Various bones that form the skeleton are 
connected together in different ways : such connections are knov/n as 
joints or articulations. 
