All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . The Oryx is famous for its beautiful horns. These weapons have a grace-ful curl to them and are often three feet long. They are covered with rings,while the ends are smooth and very sharp. It is fairly common all over SouthAfrica, living, like the gazelle, in bands. It is not nearly so timid as the former,and when wounded shows considerable spirit. It is apt to lie quite still untilthe hunter comes near, then suddenly charges with lowered head and hornswell out. These wounds usually prove fatal. In the early days of South Africa the oryx used to
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . The Oryx is famous for its beautiful horns. These weapons have a grace-ful curl to them and are often three feet long. They are covered with rings,while the ends are smooth and very sharp. It is fairly common all over SouthAfrica, living, like the gazelle, in bands. It is not nearly so timid as the former,and when wounded shows considerable spirit. It is apt to lie quite still untilthe hunter comes near, then suddenly charges with lowered head and hornswell out. These wounds usually prove fatal. In the early days of South Africa the oryx used to wander over the landin huge herds. So many thousands travelled together that everything greenwas eaten till the country looked as though it had been swept by A GROUP OF CHAMOIS. THE CHAMOIS. The Chamois isperhaps the most famousmember of the antelopefamily. It is quite wrongto class this little animalamong- the goats, al-though it is like them inappearance. The homeof the chamois is in thehighest Alps, where itfeeds upon the grass thatgrows near the snow-line. Everyone hasheard of the speed and jumping power of the chamois, andlast, but not least, its wonderful sense of smell. It will scenta man at a distance which one would hardly believe the wary creature is alarmed, it will stand like a statueand stare in the direction in which it smells danger. Theinstant it sees anything move, it rushes up the rate at which it disappears is something astonishing. Thechamois is just as clever at getting down hill as it is going sometimes chase the animal until they think theyhave it cornered, and then it will escape being caught bysliding down what seems to be a perpendicular precipice. The affection of the do
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