. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. NATURAL HEAD OF MALAYAN TAPIR, SHOWING MVSCLES OF SHORT TKVNK AND FACE. (Aftir Mvrie.) American, Cuvier observes that a glance at the profile of their respective crania is sufficient to impress upon the observer their specific diflferences. The foi-ehead of -the Indian Tapir is convex, and rises higher than the back of the head. It is accompanied, in its rise, by the nasal bones, an arraugeinent by which space is given for the comparatively large proboscis, and adding length to the fuiTOws where the muscles are in- serted. This o
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. NATURAL HEAD OF MALAYAN TAPIR, SHOWING MVSCLES OF SHORT TKVNK AND FACE. (Aftir Mvrie.) American, Cuvier observes that a glance at the profile of their respective crania is sufficient to impress upon the observer their specific diflferences. The foi-ehead of -the Indian Tapir is convex, and rises higher than the back of the head. It is accompanied, in its rise, by the nasal bones, an arraugeinent by which space is given for the comparatively large proboscis, and adding length to the fuiTOws where the muscles are in- serted. This organisation, according to Cuvier, explains why the Indian Tapir has a more powerful and more extensile trunk than the American. There is also in the former, on the base of the nasal bones, at their junction with the frontal bones and on each side, a deep fossa, or de- pression, which does not exist in the other species. This elevation of the forehead is accompanied by a depression of the oc- cipital crest, which, far from forming a pyramid, as in the American species, rather descends backwards. The aperture of the bony nostrils, enlarged by the prolongation of the maxillary bones, termuiates below and forwards by more elevated premaxillaries, which are fused (anchylosed) together in early youtli, as in the American. In the upper jaw there are, in the adult Tapu, on each side three incisors, one canine, four pre- molars, and three molars. In the lower jaw, on each side, there are three incisors, one cariine, three premolars, and three molars: altogether making forty - two teeth in number. Some peculiarities offer themselves with regard to the form of the teeth : for instance, the outer incisors above are very large and resemble ca- nines, while those below are unusually small. The canines themselves are very small, having their crowns ably shorter than theii- roots. With regard to other portions of the skeleton nothing need be remarked, except that the bones of the ex
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