Identifier: wildbeaststheirw00bake (find matches)
Title: Wild beasts and their ways : reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
Subjects: Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893 Animal behavior Hunting
Publisher: London New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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orms,The bubalis has a species of large maggot which is found in thehigh bony protuberance upon which the horns are fitted. Some ofthe gazelles have worms which bore through the flesh, and are onlystopped by the skin, upon reaching which a local inflammation isset up, and blood-red circular spots are found beneath the surface.I have frequently seen gazelles that were perfectly unfit for food,and nevertheless they appeared to be in good condition untilflayed. When divested of the skin, they were in a deplorablestate, the inner surface of the hide being covered with rings ofblood, the results of the worms puncture in its passage throughthe flesh. 352 WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS chap, xxi There is a peculiar charm in the antelope tribe, owing to theirgreat variety and their gamey character, and I look back to manyyears passed in the African wilderness, where the associations con-nected with the wild animals of the country were far more agreeablethan my experience of the human inhabitants.
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CHAPTER XXII THE DEER (CERVIDM) he deer has always been the game par excellence of the hunter.There is no animal more generally distributed throughout theworld, therefore it has been, and still remains, the general attrac-tion, as it is usually within reach of the hunter in all wildcountries where it is not specially preserved. There is no animalwhich exhibits the necessity of preservation by game-laws more for-cibly than the deer. In Scotland, where preservation has affordeda sanctuary by the strict observance of a close-time, we see animmense increase of numbers, although the conditions of theHighlands have entirely changed since the destruction of forests,which originally gave shelter to the red-deer. In mediaeval timesthe shelter of vast areas of woods exerted a corresponding influencein the development of the animals. Shrubs, grasses, and variousplants throve within the woods; these afforded nourishment tothe animals during winter. At the same time, they were pro-tected from the

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