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Copyright by Martin Johnson, author of “Safari.”
Courtesy of G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Fig. 3.—A midnight visitor. An African elephant surprised by the flashlight at the waterhole just back of the Johnson Camp at Lake Paradise, June 25, 1927.
By a process of evolution “his nose has turned into a hand, his ears into fans, and his teeth into ivory spears.” Parts of an animal develop in response to needs for them and vanish with the passing of such need.
