Nor must we overlook the fact, that increased bulk would act as a protection against almost all beasts of prey excepting the lion; and against this animal, its tall neck--and the taller the better-- would, as Mr. Chauncey Wright has remarked, serve as a watch-tower.

It is from this cause, as Sir S.

Baker remarks, that no animal is more difficult to stalk than the giraffe.

This animal also uses its long neck as a means of offence or defence, by violently swinging its head armed with stump-like horns.