. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. PJioiograph by Fratelli Alii TWO YOUNG LIONESSES. 83 84 Animal Life faded from black to chestnut, and from chestnut to yellow brown, while the groundcolour of the far has darkened to buff or greyish brown. The tail has shortenedand the head has increased in size, developing a long and powerful muzzle. Struc-turally, perhaps, the lion is a little nea,rer to the leopard stock than is the tiger. Theimmediate parent of the tiger may have been some jaguar-like development of leopard,which, like so many of the Asiatic types, found
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. PJioiograph by Fratelli Alii TWO YOUNG LIONESSES. 83 84 Animal Life faded from black to chestnut, and from chestnut to yellow brown, while the groundcolour of the far has darkened to buff or greyish brown. The tail has shortenedand the head has increased in size, developing a long and powerful muzzle. Struc-turally, perhaps, the lion is a little nea,rer to the leopard stock than is the tiger. Theimmediate parent of the tiger may have been some jaguar-like development of leopard,which, like so many of the Asiatic types, found its way to America and died out inAsia, developing in Eastern Asia into the much more formidable tiger. The rangesof the tiger and the lion formerly overlapped in India, otherwise they divided the oldworld pretty equally between them, the tiger occupying (at one time) all NorthernAsia, North Persia and Pontus, Afghanistan, India, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java andChina, while the lion became the king of carnivores in Western Asia, CentralEurope, and nearly the whole of A
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