Identifier: animallifeworldo119021903lond (find matches)
Title: Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ring to move intheir direction. I foundboth the wart hogs andthe bush pigs, too, eithervery tame or very stupid,and several hippopotamiwhich were disportingthemselves in small muddjlagoons were at my mercy,had I wished to interferewith them; but on this tripI killed very few animalsand never anything largerthan a hartebeest, nor didI fire a single shot exceptwhen obliged to do so, i)iorder to secure a supply ofmeat for myself and mynative attendants. In acountry so well stocked withantelopes, zebras and buffa-loes, carnivorous animals, itmay well be supposed, werenot wanting, and, indeed, inno part of Africa probablywere lions, leopards, hyaenas,wild dogs and jackals moreplentiful than they weresome ten or twelve yearsago in the neighbourhoodof the Lower Pungwe river.But all carnivorous animalsare more or less nocturnalin their habits and thereforeonly occasionally encounteredin the daytime; and on theoccasion of my first visit tothis district I saw neitherlions, hyaenas nor leopards.
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V IROOP or B0^TE QUiG&4they l-.altcd, and for a long time all stood quite still withpricked an:l eyes turned towards me. 228 Animal Life though the two. former animals roared and howled nightly round my camp and thegrunting cry of the latter was often heard. Nor was I much more fortunate in thisrespect on my second visit to the same part of the country in 1892, for though Ispent six weeks/ travelling and hunting in the country lying between the Pungwe riverand Lake Sungwe during October and November of that year, I only saw three lions,though there was not a single night during the trip on which I did not hear some ofthese animals roaring, sometimes close to camp, at other? in the distance. On severaloccasions, too, I heard three different troops or families of lions roaring on the samenight. On the day when I saw the three lions, I had left camp with a few nativefollowers very early one morning, and was walking across an open plain studded withlarge ant-heaps, from which the long

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