The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-12

attack would raise the forte of the scream
ers to a fOTtissimO, and spoil their business
chances by alarming the sleepers all
around
In moonlight nights foolhardy jaguar
might, moreover, provoke a recOunter with
another kind of cooperative forest dwell
the jungle in troops of sometimes more
than 100, and charge every suspicious
stranger, in reliance on the strength of
superior numbers. Individually the male
peccary is much less formidable Great
IRE than the Indian wild boar. The weight
of fun grown specimen never reaches 100
pounds-fOrty pounds being the average
of the tuskers, and sixty that of the Veter-
an sows. But the size of the head is out
of all proportion to the rest of the body !;
the neck muscles. as in all the hog tribe
are OF great strength. and the tusks,
though concealed by the pOuchy lips can
be used with the efficacy Of a bowie knife
At the first aiarm-grunt of their sentries
the bears become aggressive, and seem to
understand the advantage of a headlong
charge so well that their adversaries do
not get a moments respite to recover from
their first surprise, and after a minutes
scrlmmage the jaguar is glad to save him
self by long-range leap and effect his
retreat to the top branches of pig-proof
tree, where he can crouch for the rest Of
the night TO lick dozen rips in his
speckled hide.
A wounded hippopotamus has been
known to rush into canebrake and re-
appear with a posse Of river bulls fatter
than himself, all rampant to ayenge the
insult and in the coast forests of Burma n
the naturalist Stelzer once saw a couple
of elephants help a pitfall. They were
jogging along in the peace OF d pachy-
dermous conscience, the old male keeping
up series OF complacent Srunts-proba-
bly, q lecture on the superiority Of culti-
waited fruits to the wild growing varieties
when suddenly crash at his feet caused
them to fling their weight on their
launches and back against tree with
their trunks raised in an attitude of de-
fiance Their son. hopeful yOungster Of
hardly 5000 pounds, had taken the lead
and stumbled into a well-concealed pit
For minute the pater familias stood
still, and then lowered his trunk. He had
sized up the situation, and advanced ar
ter giving his spouse an admOnOtOry push
Come on, old woman" expressed as
plainly as in words for the Youngsters
mother Immediately Joined her husband
at the brink Of the pit and going down on
one knee tested the safety of the ground
before trusting her whole weight to her
front legs. They then both stopped over
and, after securing a good hold slowly
raised their heads, and with a steady pull
at last managed to eztrcate the product
Of their cOnjugal tenderness.
Beavers fee at the snap Of a steel trap
leaving a luckless comrade to his fate
but assist one another in manifold details
of their building enterprises. On hearing
the spash of a ready cut log, half a doz-
en- tree fellers will interrupt their work to
swim out and help push the floating seq
ment to its destination, and perhaps lift
it from below, while the rest pull and shove
it into a gap Of the half-finished dam
They then push IN a few cross sticks to
keep the log in place. The risk of back
sliding being obyiated, the architects in
dulge IN a round Of aquatic gymnastics.
till the example Of their patriarch re-
calls them to their sense Of duty, and all
swim ashore to 20 knawing again.
The enormous herds Of antelopes that
roam the plains of Southern Africa can
rarely be taken by surprise, as their vigil
liant GnnfinntE watch line Of 4q
preach, and prefer to err on the side Of
excessive caution If both their eyes and
their keen scent should fail to determine
the nature of a suspicious object. But