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THE LIVING WORLD. 
seven inches long. The heights which the chamois scales, its grace and agility, 
and the excitements and perils of the chamois -hunter are too often described to 
be more than alluded to in such a work as The Living World. 
The Gnu, Gnoo, Wildebeest (Connochetes gnu), is a South African animal 
which looks as 
if some one in 
sport had put 
together parts 
of the ante¬ 
lope, the ox 
and the horse, 
or as if the 
•fabulous forms 
of heathen an- 
tiquity had 
some substra¬ 
tum of fact 
upon which to 
rest. The 
head, like that 
of the buffalo, 
is armed with 
wide-spread¬ 
ing horns, 
which first 
bending down¬ 
ward again 
curve upward 
and terminate 
in sharp 
points; the 
body and tail 
are those o f 
the horse, 
while the an¬ 
telope charac¬ 
ter pronounces 
itself most dis¬ 
tinctively i n 
the legs and 
feet. They 
are gregarious 
and the herds 
are large. 
They frequently associate with the ostrich, the giraffe and the zebra. They are 
curious, suspicious and capricious. When their attention is caught by any unusual 
appearance, they will begin pawing, capering and bellowing; will leap high in 
air, begin to fight each other, and finally take precipitately to flight. It is 
susceptible of domestication, but is so much favored by the bot-fly as to render 
CHAMOIS DEFENDING ITS YOUNG. 
