In an ordinary herd there will be many that will weigh more than two thousand pounds. He is not only large but is endowed with those characteristics that would make any vicious animal a killer. Being a thick-skinned animal, he is tough and hard to stop, and harder to kill. Even a lion, king of the beasts, will eventually die if solidly hit any place in his body by a bullet. Then, too, a buffalo has unusually sharp eyesight, a keen sense of smell, and acute hearing.
Elephants are big and strong and tough and are sometimes enraged by the very scent of man.
But an elephant does not have keen eyesight and must rely largely upon his nose and ears. They have been known to pass within a few feet of a man without seeing him. The rhinoceros is big and strong and tough and angry. But he not only has weak eyes but a weak mind. If he charges a man and misses, he may abruptly stop and begin grazing, having forgotten all about the fact that he has just made a furious charge.