 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 586 pages
...young to enable him to reach the nipple with hu mouth ; consequently, if ever the trunk was used to lay hold of the nipple, it would be at this period, when he is making laborious effort) to reach it with his mouth, but which he could always easily do with his trunk if it answered... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 630 pages
...to enable him to reach the nipple with his mouth ; consequently, if ever the trunk was used to lay hold of the nipple, it would be at this period, when...reach it with his mouth, but which he could always easily do with his trunk if it answered the purpose. In Bucking, the young elephant always grasps the... | |
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... while sucking. Elephants never lie down to give their young ones suck; and it often happens, when the dam is tall, that she is obliged for some time to bend her body towards her young, to enable him to reach the nipple with his mouth: consequently,... 
