The Descent of Man

On the sperm-whale see Mr. J.H. Thompson, in
'Proc. Zool. Soc.' 1867, p. 246.)
All male animals which are furnished with special
weapons for fighting, are well known to
engage in fierce battles. The courage and the
desperate conflicts of stags have often been
described; their skeletons have been found in
various parts of the world, with the horns inextricably
locked together, shewing how miserably
the victor and vanquished had perished. (3.
See Scrope ('Art of Deer-stalking,' p. 17) on the
locking of the horns with the Cervus elaphus.
Richardson, in 'Fauna Bor. Americana,' 1829, p.
252, says that the wapiti, moose, and reindeer
have been found thus locked together. Sir. A.
Smith found at the Cape of Good Hope the skeletons
of two gnus in the same condition.) No
animal in the world is so dangerous as an elephant
in must. Lord Tankerville has given me a
graphic description of the battles between the
wild bulls in Chillingham Park, the descen-