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Title: Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter), 1846-1902
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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antage over the elephant. The short body of therhinoceros gives him another superiority over his adversary, be-cause he can rush beneath the elephant and plunge his horn intothe belly of his enemy, whom, in this way, he often injures seri-ously. When, therefore, an elephant and a rhinoceros have metin conflict, the battle becomes a contest of dexterity and skill ingiving and parrying thrusts. The animals circle about eachother at a gallop, shaking the ground with their heavy tread,each one trying to get a hold upon the flank of the other. Some-times the elephant finally succeeds in making a good use of hislong tusks (as shown in the desperate fight presented in ourpicture), and then the fate of the rhinoceros is sealed. As soonas the elephant has impaled his enemy he brings his thick forelegs to beai upon him, presses him down to the ground with allhis ponderous weight, then proceeds to crush his head, and gen-erally leaves the conquered beast upon the field a shapeless,trampled mass.
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A Battle between Giants. Rhinoceros fighting with Elephant. A BEAVER COLONY. 351 A Beaver Colony. THE beaver is a marine architect in the true sense of theword. His life and habits are plainly suggested in theaccompanying picture. Although a rodent like themouse, the hare, the squirrel, and their cousins, he differs fromthem in size and in methods of living. Just as the squirrels havechosen the hollow of a tree, the rats and mice the earth for theirdwellings, and the hares the fields and woods for their habita-tions, so the beaver selects the water as his especial home-quar-ters. Here he displays an astounding activity and a marvellousengineering skill. The beaver lives in large communities of hiskind, and the wonderful dams with which he blocks the unrulystreams are the result of the united and intelHgent labor of theentire settlement working with a common purpose toward acommon end. Like the majority of rodents, he builds his housedeep beneath the surface of the ground, but at no hi

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