STRANGE ELEPHANT
LONG HAIR, UPRIGHT EAKS AND A SMILE Lieutenant Girard is a French office’ exploring the Tchad colony betweea England Soudan and Nigeria, in tL hot centre of equatorial Alrica. T l colony is twice as h.rge as Frac: •and has 1,500,000 inhs.bit&nts. It bt been opened up, so to speak, by tl trans-African auto expeditions t Belgian Congo. It was alreac known for the Rothschild elepban* who are semi-aquatic as become the climate aud marshland, throat: which their herds have made ui kept for centuries six road tracks But a new elephant, which Lita tenant Girard has succeeded in g' ting alive to the old Zoological G* den of Paris is different, panic; larly in his general look. He » light grey in colour and long-hair* all along the under side. On b* head two enormous ears stand n' Trunk and tusks are like any ekphant’s—but his lower lip is qbl a novelty. Instead of running or; to a point* it is round and dsmile. So far he has no name. Professor Bourdelle at the Nature History Museum, which is a P* of the Jardin des Plantes, nothing like him has been seen - 1 fore in the zoological gardens of lbworld.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 12
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202STRANGE ELEPHANT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 12
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