 ... only covered with a few sticks and leaves. Its fellows make no effort to assist the fallen one, as they might easily do by kicking in the earth around the pit, but flee in terror.  The Indian Forester - Page 5291884Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 692 lehte
...guard against falling into pits, &c., yet she readily falls into them ; and if a young one falls in, the mother will remain until the hunters come, without doing anything to assist her offspring out, as other animals would do. In its domesticated state the elephant is readily trained to obey.... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1879 - 510 lehte
...catching it, and only covered with a few sticks and leaves."1 If a young elephant fall into a pit, " the mother will remain until the hunters come, without doing anything to assist it." " These facts are certainly against the conclusion that the elephant is an extraordinarily shrewd... | |
 | Robert Armitage Sterndale - 1884 - 594 lehte
...guarding it against such dangers, the wild elephant readily falls into pits dug in its path, whilst its fellows flee in terror, making no effort to assist...not even feeding it by throwing in a few branches. " When a half-trained elephant of recent capture happens to get loose, and the approach of its keeper... | |
 | John Hampden Porter - 1894 - 420 lehte
...it, and which are only covered with a few sticks and leaves. Its fellows make no effort (in general) to assist the fallen one, as they might easily do by kicking in the earth around the edge, but fly in terror. It commonly happens that a young elephant tumbles into a pit, near which its... | |
 | George P. Sanderson - 1907 - 512 lehte
...falls into pits dug for catching it, and only covered with a few sticks and leaves. Its fellows make no effort to assist the fallen one, as they might easily do by kicking in the earth around the pit, but flee in terror. It commonly happens that a young elephant falls into a pit, near which the mother... | |
 | F. W. F. Fletcher - 1911 - 526 lehte
...falls into pits dug for catching it, and only covered with a few sticks and leaves. Its fellows make no effort to assist the fallen one, as they might easily do by kicking in the earth around the pit, but flee in terror. It commonly happens that a young elephant falls into a pit, near which the mother... | |
 | George P. Sanderson - 1912 - 464 lehte
...falls into pits dug for catching it, and only covered with a few sticks and leaves. Its fellows make no effort to assist the fallen one, as they might easily do by kicking in the earth around the pit, but flee in terror. It commonly happens that a young elephant falls into a pit, near which the mother... | |
 | Charles Mayer - 1921 - 248 lehte
...readily falls into a pit dug for catching it, only covered with a few sticks and leaves. Its fellows make no effort to assist the fallen one, as they might easily do by kicking in the earth around the pit, but they flee in terror. It commonly happens that a young elephant falls into a pit near which the... | |
 | Charles Mayer - 1921 - 246 lehte
...readily falls into a pit dug for catching it, only covered with a few sticks and leaves. Its fellows make no effort to assist the fallen one, as they might easily do by kicking in the earth around the pit, but they flee in terror. It commonly happens that a young elephant falls into a pit near which the... | |
 | Frederick Walter Champion - 1928 - 424 lehte
...guarding it against such dangers, the wild elephant readily falls into pits dug in its path, whilst its fellows flee in terror, making no effort to assist the fallen one, as they might easily do by knocking in the earth around the pit. It commonly happens that a young elephant falls into a pit, in... | |
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