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The Giraffe 
W HAT with his long legs and long neck this 
animal looks like a high tower. He is 
really the tallest animal, being more than 
three times the height of a tall man; for some 
giraffes are twenty feet tall. He has a long tongue, 
too, and with it he picks one by one the leaves of 
the mimosa and acacia trees to eat. He is tawny 
in color, with the under parts whitish. He lives 
in Africa. There is no other animal at all like 
him. He has two short horns between his ears; 
but these horns, instead of being bare bone, like the 
antlers of a moose, are covered with skin. 
The Leopard 
T HE leopard runs like a monkey up 
the smooth trunks of trees. He lies 
on the branches, waiting for his 
prey, well-hidden because the dark spots on 
his light coat look like tree leaves. When 
an antelope or a deer comes along, the leop¬ 
ard drops down upon it and kills and eats it. 
He is even fiercer than the tiger, though not 
as big, and is silent and stealthy. He lives 
in Africa and Asia. Like the rest of the cat family, he sleeps by day and 
hunts by night. See this leopard crouch like a cat, and lash his tail. You 
can almost hear him snarl. 
The Elephant 
W HAT is the largest of all land animals? The elephant. These 
beasts live in both Asia and Africa. Instead of hands, they have 
a long trunk between their eyes, and at the end of it two projec¬ 
tions which are like a thumb and finger. 
With these they can grasp even small things. 
They have tusks which they use in fighting. 
An elephant stands anywhere from eight to 
twelve feet high. When angry, an elephant 
raises his head and his ears stand out side- 
wise like two sails. If he is charging forward, 
to attack, he gives short, sharp, trumpeting 
screams, and holds 'his trunk high in the air. 
