LAW OF BATTLE. 
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° u gli having so short a neck and so unwieldy a body, 
(< Can strike either upwards, or downwards, or side- 
^ ' Va vs, with equal dexterity.” 25 The Indian elephant 
ghts, as I was informed by the late Dr. Falconer, in a 
of , en t manner according to the position and curvature 
^is tusks. When they are directed forwards and 
P wards lie is able to fling a tiger to a great distance — 
18 said to even thirty feet ; when they are short and 
Irie d downwards lie endeavours suddenly to pin the 
d' e r to the ground, and in consequence is danger- 
JlliS to the rider, who is liable to be jerked off the 
10 odah . 26 
^ Very few male quadrupeds possess weapons of two 
istiuet kinds specially adapted for fighting with rival 
|ales. The male muutjae-deer ( Gervulw ), however, 
ers an exception, as he is provided with horns and 
jetted canine teeth. But one form of weapon, has 
j, 611 been replaced in the course of ages by another 
' ,| . rt h as we may infer from what follows. With rn- 
. '“ants the development of horns generally stands 
an inverse relation with that of even moderately 
i ^-developed canine teeth. Thus camels, guanacoes, 
“GVrotains and musk-deer, are hornless, and they 
[( ave efficient canines; these teeth being “always of 
^“'nailer size in the females than in the males.” The 
ti^mclidae have in their upper jaws, in addition to 
jj 6 ' 1 ' true canines, a pair of canine-shaped incisors . 27 
^ d e deer and antelopes, on the other hand, possess 
and they rarely have canine teeth; and these 
611 present are always of small size, so that it is 
j 8 Liuaout, 1 Seasons with the Sen-Horses,’ 18G1, p. HI. 
her • See als0 Corse (‘ Pliilosoph. Transact.’ 1799, p. 212) on the mnn- 
ot] 1,1 w hieli the short-tusked Mooknah variety of the elephant attacks 
elephants. 
t*Wen, ‘Anatomy of Vertebrates,’ vol. iii. p. 349. 
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