 | 1860 - 534 pages
...prevented him ; and on one occasion, when successive efforts had failed to put the noose over the leg of an elephant which was already secured by one foot,...up till the noose was attached and drawn tight."! In captivity the temper of the elephant is seldom to be implicitly relied on. " The most amenable are... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1860 - 528 pages
...prevented him ; and on one occasion, when successive efforts had failed to put the noose over the leg of an elephant which was already secured by one foot,...and hold it up till the noose was attached and drawn tight."f In captivity the temper of the elephant is seldom to be implicitly relied on. " The most amenable... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...prevented him ; and on one occasion, when successive efforts had failed to put the noose over the leg of an elephant which was already secured by one foot,...and hold it up till the noose was attached and drawn tight."f In captivity the temper of the elephant is seldom to be implicitly relied on. " The most amenable... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 702 pages
...prevented him ; and on one occasion, when successive efforts had failed to put the noose over the leg of an elephant which was already secured by one foot,...the decoy watch her opportunity, and when his foot w<os again raised, suddenly push in her own leg beneath it, and hold it up till the noose was attached... | |
 | G. Garratt - Instinct - 1862 - 462 pages
...failed to put the noose over the fore-leg of an elephant which was already secured by one foot, but H 2 which wisely put the other to the ground as often...it up till the noose was attached and drawn tight." Here, manifestly, was intelligence, not instinct. Did ever dog display so much ? CHAP. IX. The Dog.... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - Children's literature - 1870 - 884 pages
...prevented him ; and on one occasion, when successive efforts had failed to put the noose over the leg of an elephant which was already secured by one foot,...often as it was attempted to pass the noose under it, the decoy watched her opportunity, and when his foot was again raised, suddenly pushed' in her own... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Antarctic regions - 1871 - 776 pages
...had failed to put the noose over the leg of an elephant who was already secured by one foot, but who wisely put the other to the ground as often as it was attempted to pass the noose under it, he saw the decoy watch her opportunity, and when his foot was again raised, suddenly push in her own... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Antarctica - 1872 - 812 pages
...as it was attempted to pass the noose under it, he saw the decoy watch her opportunity, and when hia foot was again raised, suddenly push in her own leg...it up till the noose was attached and drawn tight. Apart from the services which from their prodigious strength the tame elephants are alone capable of... | |
 | Elizabeth Spooner - Animal welfare - 1881 - 302 pages
...prevented him ; and on one occasion when successive efforts had failed to put the noose over the leg of an elephant which was already secured by one foot,...to pass the noose under it, I saw the decoy watch her1 opportunity, and when his foot was again raised suddenly push in her own leg beneath it, and hold... | |
 | Lemurs - 1883 - 456 pages
...prevented him ; and on one occasion, when successive efforts had failed to put the noose over the leg of an elephant which was already secured by one foot,...often as it was attempted to pass the noose under it, the decoy watched her opportunity, and, when his foot was again raised, suddenly pushed in her own... | |
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More than once when a wild one was extending his trunk, and would have intercepted the rope about to be placed over his leg, Siribeddi, by a sudden motion of her own trunk, pushed his aside and prevented him ; and on one occasion, when successive efforts... 
