. Fig. 45. Domestication complete. A wild mountain animal brought to the lowlands and ready to follow the call of man the cattle and the sheep. F>om here on are a sheer multitude of more or less distantly related species, — goats, ibex, markhor, tahr, nilgiri, goral, serow, chamois, eland, kudu, antelope, nyl- ghau, gemsbok, gazelle, springbok, puku, klipspringer, llama, alpaca, and scores of others down to the gnu, or wild beast with the horn of a musk ox, the head and mane of a bison, the tail of a horse, and body and legs midway between the horse and the cow.

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