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Title: The game animals of Africa
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting Big game animals
Publisher: London, R. Ward, limited
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n animal, and none will keep so long.It is hardly credible that, even when travelling in Equatorial Africa, ifproperly treated, it will remain quite good for a week easily in fineweather, and even longer sometimes, for it seems rather to dry up thandecay. An old bull is quite uneatable. These animals are very difficult of approach, in a general way,for they are extremely keen-sighted, and their towering height enablesthem to command a wide view. When several are together, as isgenerally the case, they are especially hard to stalk, since it becomesimpossible to keep out of sight of all those different pairs of eyes, upamong the tree-tops, at once ; and if, as sometimes happens, they areaccompanied by other game, the difficulties are still further increased.It is then only by the most careful, pains-taking stalk, exercising everyprecaution, regardless of sun, thorns, and other inconveniences, and verylikely spending a long time over it, that the hunter can hope to arrive GIRAFFE 2>1.
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374 GIRAFFE GROUP within shot. Even then many disappointments result, for the animalsare probably moving about, so that one may suddenly come into fullview of the stalker just as he is executing an arduous crawl ; and eventhough he instantly become rigid and lie motionless, patiently baking onthe hot ground, its large, keen eye may have detected a movement andthe alarm be given. If once you get within moderate distance of yourgame, it often becomes easier to approach still nearer ; for it may thenbe possible to get their heads behind bushes over which they previouslylooked. Arrived within convenient shot, do not edge round to comeinto full view ; rather sit and wait till the giraffe comes out from behindthe screen, when, if you remain immovable, you will not be noticed. I have never heard giraffe make any sound, nor have I heard orread anywhere that their cry, if they have one, has ever been noticed. THE SOMALI GIRAFFE (Giraffa reticulata)(Plate xiv, fig. i) The so-called netted giraf

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