Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1914 — Elephants and Their Young. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Elephants and Their Young.

Very little is known of the breeding habits of elephants or their manner of caring for their young. A gentleman whom we well acquainted while on the Mount Kenla trip, was not a professional elephant hunter, nevertheless he had'killed several elephants on Kilimanjaro. Once by mistake he shot and wounded a cow elephant that ran some distance before falling. On overtaking her he found that she had fallen in a kneeling position. A little calf was pinned under her knee by a leg that was driven deep into the soft earth. A close examination of the route over which the old elephant had parsed failed to reveal any of the little one’s tracks. This, together with the fact that the calf was not hitherto seen and the peculiar manner in which it lay, might be taken as proof that the mother was carrying it in her trunk, or perhaps resting it on her tusks, with her trunk holding it in position.—a Outing.