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"The animals do assist each other, then?" "Yes; there was a remarkable instance of it in the affair of Lieutenant Moodie. I mentioned that it was a large male elephant which killed the soldier just after Mr Moodie's escape. Shortly afterwards a shot from one of the hunters broke the fore-leg of this animal, and prevented him from running, and there it stood to be fired at.
The height of the fore-leg should not exceed the distance from the elbow to the centre of the back, between the shoulder blades. Considerable importance is attached to the freedom and activity displayed by the animal in its movements. Deformed joints, or weakness, are very objectionable.
He was holding firmly to its edge by the hind legs and one fore-leg, while with the other he was straining his utmost to reach the fish.
Some loose dirt gave way underfoot, the tired beast stumbled, a dead limb caught at his legs, tripping him, and Blackie lurched downward and fell. Through the grace of fortune Gloria rolled clear and unhurt. Blackie got up, tottering, with one quivering fore-leg lifted. King's face went black with rage. But this time it was wordless rage.
You'll have to sell your boots if you follow old John." She stirred her tea and sipped it slowly. "You said Whirlwind was going lame on the near fore-leg, and it isn't true," she exclaimed upon a pause. "What was your object in telling me that?" "I said it before the grooms and you didn't give me a chance of blowing the smoke away afterwards.
But the pectoral fin of a fish is equally 'adapted' for aquatic locomotion, but it is certainly not the fore-leg of a terrestrial mammal adapted for that purpose. The original meaning of adaptation in animals and plants, of organic adaptation to use another term, is the relation of a mechanism to its action or of a tool to its work.
As quick as thought the lad seemed to awake to a sense of his situation, and, raising his gun, he blazed away. The shot, fired at random, could not have been better aimed by the most veteran of hunters. The ball entered directly behind the fore-leg just as it was thrown forward in the act of running, and, penetrating to the heart, the result was that the animal never made another bound.
He made for poor Helen's near fore-leg with his head well down, and I could hear his teeth gnashing.
The weight of the creature caused a fore-leg to break off part of the edge, and over it went, slowly, on its side, almost balancing thus, and flapping as it went. To expedite the process Quashy seized it by the neck and gave another heave and howl.
First, Jess's powerful jaws came together about the thick part of the dingo's right fore-leg, and took firm hold there, while the snarling and now terrified dingo snapped at the back of her neck, the rough edge of the bark thatch on the middle of his back producing in him a horrible sense of being trapped. That was one thing that happened in that instant.
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