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Title: Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter), 1846-1902
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Bronsart von Schellendorff, a German officer stationed inWest Africa, has for nearly two years been conducting with somesuccessithe training of the zebra and the ostrich for carrying pur-poses. The zebra takes immediate fright at the slow and creep-ing approach of the hunter. But if the latter advances upon hisprey openly and without concealment, he can approach to withinfifty yards of the herd without stampeding it. This peculiarityof the zebras temperament suggested to Lieutenant von Schel-lendorff the plan of driving herds of these animals into anenclosure. The Ndorrobbos, a native tribe which is mostoften assigned to such a round-up, are noted hunters, and followthe sport with great zest. Herr Bronsart thus describes a huntof this kind : — About three hundred Ndorrobbos formed a great half-circleabout the open hunting-ground which lay between a small hilland a creek before us. At last little bands containing from tento twenty zebras with a few foals, and a band of gnus of about
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oO CORRALLING THE ZEBRA. 17 fifty head, appeared about half a mile away, between the hilland the driving line. The plain before us was dotted withgazelles. At eight oclock we discovered a great herd of gnus andzebras, nearly a hundred and fifty head in all, together witheleven ostriches. At about eleven oclock there rolled towardus from the northwest a giant cloud of dust from which count-less zebras and gnus gradually emerged, with the eleven flutter-ing ostriches leading the van. At our feet scampered frightened,shadowy little groups of gazelles. Higher up, and about three-quarters of a mile behind these little folk, stood the giant herdof zebras, which the little troops of the morning had joined.About a hundred zebras stood packed tightly together, while asmany more were scattered about, running back and forth ingreat panic. A herd of gnus at this moment tried to breakthrough the hne, much to our disgust, for the round-up hadbeen designed solely for zebras. Then it was the Ndorrobb

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