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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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160 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL been a long hard hunt and our safari as well as ourselves were considerably the worse for wear. To shoot a half-dozen buffalo is a very simple matter and ought to be accomplished almost any day in British East Africa or Uganda, but to select a series of a half-dozen that will have the greatest possible scientific value by illustrating the development from babyhood to old age is quite a different matter. To the average sports- ground of the region. Whereas the tinga-tinga buffalo have lived in the swamp for years and spend practically no time on hard ground, hence the hoofs are long, sharp and unworn as a result of walking always in the soft mud and water. All this in spite of the fact that these two herds may actually come in contact at the edge of the swamp. Other herds living in forest country, which come out into the grasslands to feed at
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Till yiimiu' liiill iif till- Afririin liuffalo group, with one of Mr. Akeley's gua-boys. The photo- grapli shows ihc chaructur of ihc marsh vegetation man the one would be sport, the other hard labor. These buffalo of the Tana country, that we found on the plains and in the bush, apparently rarely or never go into the swamps, a fact not only confirmed by observation but also indicated by the condition of the hoofs. These are horny, round and smooth as a result of traveling on the hard and more or less stony night, always go back into the forest at daybreak. In Uganda where buffalo are recog- nized as a menace to life and are of no particular value except for food, they are officially treated as vermin and one may shoot as many as he will. Here the herds have increased to an enormous extent and because of the dense jungles and general inaccessibilit\- of the coun-

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