Archive image from page 638 of The descent of man, and. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex descentofmansele1874darw Year: 1874 MAMMALS, 625 It may have been a great advantage w the lion and puma, from the open nature of their usual haunts, to have lost their stripes, and to have been thus rendered less eon- s])icuous to their prey; and if the successive variations, by which this end was gained, occurred rather late in life the young would have retained their stripes, as is now the case Fig. 72. Head of Semnopithecus rubicundus. This and the following figures (from Prof. G
Archive image from page 638 of The descent of man, and. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex descentofmansele1874darw Year: 1874 MAMMALS, 625 It may have been a great advantage w the lion and puma, from the open nature of their usual haunts, to have lost their stripes, and to have been thus rendered less eon- s])icuous to their prey; and if the successive variations, by which this end was gained, occurred rather late in life the young would have retained their stripes, as is now the case Fig. 72. Head of Semnopithecus rubicundus. This and the following figures (from Prof. Gervais) are given to show the odd arrangement and develop ment of the hair on the head. As to deer, pigs and tapirs, Fritz Miiller has suggested to me that these animals, by the removal of their spots or stripes through natural selection, would have been less easily seen by their enemies; and that they would have especially required this protection as soon as the carnivora increased in size and number during the tertiary periods. This may be the true explanation, but it is rather strange that the young should not have been thus protected, and still inore so that the adults of some species should hav
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