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... short and stiff series of vertebrae , the huge animal can only move his head with constrained and pivot - like action . His sole dependence , therefore , is his trunk , and when we consider that with this member rendered incapable , the ...
... short and stiff series of vertebrae , the huge animal can only move his head with constrained and pivot - like action . His sole dependence , therefore , is his trunk , and when we consider that with this member rendered incapable , the ...
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... short time of being cropped . There is reason to believe that our ideas respecting the quantity of food required by the giant quadrupeds are much exaggerated ; as truly says an acute writer , it should be remembered , that the camel ...
... short time of being cropped . There is reason to believe that our ideas respecting the quantity of food required by the giant quadrupeds are much exaggerated ; as truly says an acute writer , it should be remembered , that the camel ...
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... short distances that might be expected of a brute of such magnitude , and it is nothing for his bulky legs to trudge him along fifty miles in a single night . Other wild and herbivorous animals seldom think of selecting a haunt ...
... short distances that might be expected of a brute of such magnitude , and it is nothing for his bulky legs to trudge him along fifty miles in a single night . Other wild and herbivorous animals seldom think of selecting a haunt ...
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... short in his walk to listen ; then turning round , he listens again , and if he feels satisfied that his suspicions are cor- rect , he invariably walks off , usually giving vent to his fear or ire by one of his vicious and peculiar ...
... short in his walk to listen ; then turning round , he listens again , and if he feels satisfied that his suspicions are cor- rect , he invariably walks off , usually giving vent to his fear or ire by one of his vicious and peculiar ...
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... short distance of the stockade . Not a sound was permitted to be made , each person spoke to his neighbor in whispers ; and such was the silence observed by the multitude of the watchers at their posts , that occasionally we could hear ...
... short distance of the stockade . Not a sound was permitted to be made , each person spoke to his neighbor in whispers ; and such was the silence observed by the multitude of the watchers at their posts , that occasionally we could hear ...
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