| Show lle ilse cries of the lie elephant the elephant lia lias ns boon been described by hunters as having ha ing three cries A quiet study of him lit in his undisturbed colue life shows that his variety of utterance is very great A shrill blowing through tile the trunk lit in some treatises described as a cry of pleasure is in cc ion at any rate the cry of rago and defiance trunk is a word derived from the french trompe and means tile hie trumpet in old illustrations an ail elephant may be seen pictured having the hie end of liis his trunk trumpet shaped sli aped A groan from the throat expresses suffering A twitter with tile lips donned defined by the syllable I 1 is the low word of alarm which elephants vass pass from one to another when anything unusual appears in the corej A night alarm which hurries them beyond this thia note of caution excites fit bliem ein to produce a booming like the sound of an empty tun struck by a mallet one observer believes this noise to bo be mado made by the elephant beating on his side with his proboscis another gentleman states that lie he lias has seen the sound produced by the animal striking the ground forcibly with the point of the trunk which is then raised and pushed in the alie direction of the threatened danger as if to detect its nature by the sense ense of smell when the sound is ia heard in the woods bellowing and trumpeting are usually ining mingled led with it it is remarkable that while an elephant disturbed in the jungle will burst away with a rush that seems to bear all down before him the noise often sinks into absolute stillness and the lie animal steals quietly away carry carrying lug ills his enor weight without a sound almost without leaving the trace of disturbed foliage behind philadelphia call |
