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e horns. In fact, all animals that have horns are some relation t

s are the ordinary cows and bu

also have horns," you may

d the antelope are also cousins to each ot

I said, they are only cousins. If you look at them carefully in the pictures on pages 103 and 109

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rns; only, a cow's horns are sometimes bent and twisted in different ways. But the antelope's horns point upward, and

led horns when the animal is a deer, but antlers, which is a special name. So take a good look at the d

r up each antler branches out into many parts. In fact, near the top eac

d which is a deer: the antelope's horns have no br

lers Differen

lso different in other ways, which you cannot see

ind of thing as the hoofs or nails of an animal, only they are th

have horns. But among most kinds of deer, only

y keep them always. But among deer, the Papas throw away their antlers every year,

ful things the deer and the antelope can do. I shall begin

re many places in the West and a few other parts of America where there is some kind of jungle and plenty of forest. A

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big as the moose. Some people think that the moose and the elk are exactly the same kind of deer, but that is not quite correct. In this book I must

, but now they have been killed off by hunters in m

as six men. He lives in places where there is plenty of forest-that is, plenty o

aves fall, and the ground is covered with snow, the poor elk would starve and die, if he did n

n very little. There is a kind of deer, called the reindeer, that lives in the frozen North, where there is snow and ic

a whole week without eating or drinking-and do work all the time! That seem

ould you believe it, he grew them in only five months! I told you a little while ago that a deer

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f, leaving the elk's head bare, with just a ridge or rough stump on it. Then, early in the spring the new a

have an outside covering like hairy leather, to guard them from harm. But as soon as the elk feels that his antler

e them to fight another animal; so during that time he hides in the bushes. But as soon as

y when he has his new antlers. What he fights about, an

Rocky Mountains. He is called the mule deer because he has very long ears, like a mule's ears. And perhaps you have se

he ground with stiff legs, and then hop on and on many times

cause he jumps like that people in Can

Kinds

er kinds of deer that live in jung

size of a donkey. His coat is very soft and glossy and beautiful. In winter his coat looks dark brown, and his legs and the under part of his b

why do the people call him the lion deer? Because he has a lovely coat, golden yellow in color. You could see him

d if he stood right in the middle of the grass, and did not move, nobody could see him. Even if a t

nimals have on their bodies the color of the pl

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s called the barking deer; only, he is not exactly a deer, but an antelope. You remember what I have told you before, about an

is small enough to hide in any little bush or behind a fallen tree or log; or else he can run away

a dog. But, you may ask, why does he want to bark at all, if he is a

e most wonderful things in the jungle. It is so wonderful that in anothe

any other animals. So, as the only way to save the other animals from being

ave the other animals from being killed by the cobra, God made the mongoose. He is a plucky little creature, about the size of a cat. And he will fight and kill

. But who can kill him? No animal! At least, the elephant and the buffalo could kill the tiger if the tiger should let them catch

hich I have already told you, and which is the Knight of the Jungle. The second animal is the

ey escape being eaten. But not the plucky little barking deer! He too runs away, but as soon as he gets a littl

not there now! The deer barks from that second bush-and runs to another one. In this

r animals in good time that the tiger is coming,

ger!" That is the mean

ter me-this way!" That is wh

he barking deer keeps on saying, as he runs from bush to bush, so that

e jungle, warning all the other animals, and