WAYS OF WILD ANIMALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 3

WAYS OF WILD ANIMALS

SOME MISSIONARY STORIES With snakes in the rafters, and elephants, lions, hyenas and crocodiles prowling about the doors, life in the Sudan is fairly exciting. At a lecture given by Mr. and Mrs. Keith Rimmer, missionaries from the Sudan, last night, on ‘True Stories of Wild Animals,” the speakers described how the boa constrictor of their neighbourhood crushed buffaloes to death and then went to sleep, before endeavouring to digest the animal. This is the time when the Dinka tribe, if it is in luck’s way, can get good meat. If the snake Is not robbed he begins to swallow the buffalo, beginning at the hind feet. The horns are often too much of a task and sometimes they have to be eaten off by white ants before the meal can be declared “stowed.” The lion, says Mr. Rimmer, is no match for two hyenas, and he will never attack a couple of them. He often lies in wait for baby elephants which are straggling behind their mothers. The anger of the mother over the death of her young is aweinspiring, and if the lion is caught, it is trampled and torn and thrown high into the branches of a tree.