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IN some of the accounts recently published of the birth of an elephant in a menagerie in America it is stated that up to this time naturalists had always believed that the elephant calf obtained its mother's milk by means of its trunk, and not directly by the mouth.
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G., J. The Mode of Suckling of the Elephant Calf. Nature 22, 11 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022011d0
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