Show 00 1 t l P t 51 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 i 0 0 F W I 1 0 i Z 15 11 i I 1 5 PI VR dv 1 7 r zem ali I 1 I 1 AN I 1 gg i y 1 r 7 e I 1 I 1 T q I ft sly to la y A S lf I 1 I 1 ita ar T ah I 1 be 7 and afeld exo brainy or very aae tes aze preserve r 4 one sli and I 1 aters i to A eit rUou sli says the spectator 61 size inie afim no difference d J ce adaa at alin aatu I 1 s en uitto to tho the elephant with the zat of the sur survivals viTals of the clarit if tnt beasts beadia ol 01 pravio us ages creatures LM ahon hose nere bulk Is IB on a scale I 1 quite the animal life of tl today oday que one the asiatic elephant ele pliant not only maintains itself itsek but Is even eten likely insely to increase to Inu numbers umbers under the active and interested care of man omitting for or the present the case of its african cousin we find and four other gigantic beasts molded almost on an the same wale scale two of them inhabiting the sa same sae e regions as the asiatic elephant all vegetable feeders and requiring no more specialized food than th U their beir successful indicks In dicus these are the rhinoceroses rhinoceros es of india and of the trans peninsula and the white and black species of southern and central africa to these must be klied the hippopotamus protected by IL ft fortunate adaptation to aquatic life to which the great rivers of africa atford afford unrivaled chances of survival all these giant beasts except the elephant are vanishing almost solely from fro lac lack k of brain power which protects the elephant both directly in making him vigilant cautious and resourceful when wild and indirectly but even more effectively in these days by making him a possible and in some cases an india indispensable pen pet sable servant to man that the rhinoceroses rhinoceros es in their wild condition have died out almost in proportion to their stupidity is obvious from the case of the south african species the white rhinoceros now believed to be extinct was after the elephant the largest of land mammals and almost the durest dullest it was sleepy shortsighted and stupid hunters shot it it as it lay before it was awake the black rhinoceros wh while ale equally stupid la is a more vigilant animal with quicker senses hence its partial survival the indian rhinoceros is a duller crea creature cleatur tur than the smaller species found in the straits settlements and uie the south of the trans peninsula and it is certainly far rarer though this may be due to an originally circum circumscribed beff habitat as well as to its sluggish habits |