THE ELEPHANT.
Conduct in Captivity.
- Alleged superiority of the Indian to the African elephant—not true [207]
- Ditto of Ceylon elephant to Indian [209]
- Process of training in Ceylon [211]
- Allowed to bathe [213]
- Difference of disposition [214]
- Sudden death of "broken heart" [216]
- First employment treading clay [217]
- Drawing a waggon [217]
- Dragging timber [218]
- Sagacity in labour [218]
- Mode of raising stones [218]
- Strength in throwing down trees exaggerated [219]
- Piling timber [219]
- Not uniform in habits of work [220]
- Lazy if not watched [220]
- Obedience to keeper from affection, not fear [221]
- Change of keeper—story of child [222]
- Ear for sounds and music [223]
- Hurra! (note) [223]
- Endurance of pain [224]
- Docility [225]
- Working elephants, delicate [225]
- Deaths in government stud [226]
- Diseases [227]
- Subject to tooth-ache [227]
- Question of the value of labour of an elephant [229]
- Food in captivity, and cost [230]
- Breed in captivity [231]
- Age [232]
- Theory of M. Fleurens [232]
- No dead elephants found [234]
- Sindbad's story [236]
- Passage from Ælian [237]