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attacking the tiger ; according to Bruce, he scores 
trunks of trees until they can be easily thrown 
l,VVu * and he likewise thus extracts the farinaceous 
^°ves of palms ; in Africa he often uses one tusk, this 
eiu g always the same, to probe the ground and thus 
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to ascertain whether it will bear his weight. The 
bull defends the herd with h is horns ; and 
ll! elk in Sweden has been known, according to Lloyd, 
1 ° strike a wolf dead with a single blow of bis great 
^'Us. Many similar facts could bo given. One of the 
Ulos t curious secondary uses to which the horns ot' any 
Rhinal are occasionally put, is that observed by Captain 
|ttton 17 with the wild goat ( Capra, wgagrus) of the 
Himalayas, and as it is said with the ibex, namely, that 
^ ieQ the male accidentally falls from a height he 
e *ds inwards bis head, and, by alighting on bis mas- 
1Ve horns, breaks the shock. The female cannot thus 
Se her horns, which are smaller, but from her more 
hriet disposition she does not so much need this strange 
* Ul 'l of shield. 
j. huch male animal uses his weapons in his own peeu- 
jrir lashion. The common ram makes a charge and 
ritts with such force with the bases of his horns, that I 
^ Ve seen a powerful man knocked over as easily as a 
uld. Goats and certain species of sheep, for instance 
I e Ovis cycloceros of Afghanistan, 18 rear on their hind 
and then not only butt, but “ make a cut down 
t( llu d a jerk up, with the ribbed front of their scimitar- 
(< ^Uiped born, as with a sabre. When the 0. cycloceros 
(( ^Backed a large domestic ram, who was a noted 
ririser, lie conquered him by the sheer novelty of his 
„ 1 Calcutta .Journal of Nat. Hist.’ vol. ii. 1843, p. 526. 
in ‘Land and Water,’ March, 1867, p. 134, on the 
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10 1 tty of Capt. Hutton and others. For the wild Pembrokeshire 
:s see the ‘Field,’ 1863, p. 150. 
