. Domesticated animals : their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization. Domestic animals. THE FLOCKS AND HERDS 127 probably long since passed away, will be likely, save so far as it may be preserved through motives of scientific interest, to join the great array of vanished species. It affords a pleasant contrast to turn from the consid- eration of the camels to a study of the elephants. The difference in the measure of attractiveness of the two forms is very great, and depends upon facts of remarkable Camels along the Sea at Twilight Unlike the camel—which, as we hav
. Domesticated animals : their relation to man and to his advancement in civilization. Domestic animals. THE FLOCKS AND HERDS 127 probably long since passed away, will be likely, save so far as it may be preserved through motives of scientific interest, to join the great array of vanished species. It affords a pleasant contrast to turn from the consid- eration of the camels to a study of the elephants. The difference in the measure of attractiveness of the two forms is very great, and depends upon facts of remarkable Camels along the Sea at Twilight Unlike the camel—which, as we have seen, is the last survivor of an ancient lineage, represented by but two species, and these limited to a small part of the world—the elephant, at the time when man appears to have taken shape, seems to have existed on all the continental lands except Australia, and to have been in a state of singular prosperity. As is often the case with other vigorous genera of mammals, the species were adapted to a very great variety of climates, and were fitted to endure tropic heat as well as arctic cold. The group of elephants is first known to us in the early. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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