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Title: African game trails; Identifier: africangametrail02roos Year: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookyear1910">1910</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookdecade1910">1910s</a>) Authors: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorRoosevelt_Theodore_1858_1919">Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919</a> Subjects: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectHunting">Hunting</a> Publisher: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookpublisherNew_York_London_Syndicate_publishing_company">New York, London, Syndicate publishing company</a> Contributing Library: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookcontributorThe_Library_of_Congress">The Library of Congress</a> Digitizing Sponsor: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksponsorSloan_Foundation">Sloan Foundation</a>


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Text Appearing Before Image: TO THE UASIN GISHU 387 yards—they face the hunter, the forward-thrown ears be- ing the most noticeable thing about them. We found that each oribi bagged cost us an unpleasantly large number of cartridges. One day we found where a large party of hyenas had established their day lairs in the wet seclusion of some reed-

Text Appearing After Image: A hyena by flashlight From a photograph by J. Alden Loring beds. We beat through these reedbeds, and, in the words once used by an old plains friend in describing the be- havior of a family of black bears under similar circum- stances, the hyenas "came bilin' out." As they bolted Kermit shot one and I another; his bit savagely at a stick with which one of the gun-bearers poked it. It is difficult at first glance to tell the sex of a hyena, and our followers stoutly upheld the wide-spread African belief that they are bi-sexual, being male or female as they choose. A wounded or trapped hyena will of course bite if seized, but shows no sign of the ferocious courage which marks the leopard under such circumstances; for the hyena is as cowardly


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