:h tiger in the same horizon is a surprising fact. In some 

 res - . - much alike, yet in others radically different. They 



- branches of th- t i ^vhu-h as not* 



above, have come up through many, many _ gi ■.._--. having 

 rigin in the Orient an J having roamed to 2sorth Ameriea in 

 a mor- t geological time. Having their birth place son. 



in - - - they migra' I Africa, where the alii 



- - i the northvr - ^re their remains are found. 

 the northeast by i rhe Behring region to our country 



wh- became extir 



- and tigers differed from each other in their i 



^rers abounded in great numbers and would have 



the present, but : i the specialization of their can: - 



an.. - of food. It is likely, however that the tiger out- 



"ae lion. Both became extinct in the new world approximately 



- me time, but in the Orient conditions were more nearly 



like the original, and there the saber-tooth perished while the 1: t - 



lived on and their offsprings are spread wide thi .rth today. 



Of the smaller animals, rabbi:- - - - badgers, goph 



tea foxes are represented. These smaller forms are doubt- 



- of our present forms, except th tc ^hich belonged 

 to a - 



- 11 of exi 



- but natural that these 5 she old survive since 



y would not require T: _ - amount r r >d as would the 



lar^. ind they could easily hide away and make their own 



Most of these animals are supposed to have originated in the 



north. Though the United States regarded as the home of the 



skL :. ■:- I badgers. The skunks, though now spread over northern 



rth Am erica, and south and we-- - the United -Star -ral 



America and Guatemala, are regarded as originating in the Sonoran 



I in their migratiun came to California, and some left their 



Brea Beds. TLe American badgers range well into the 



north, but garded - /ran in origin. Thus these two came 



west and leaving some remains in Bancho La Brea. survived with - 



country, and are now digging holes in the banks of the very : - 



in which their fat- ra died. 



- chief herbiv -resented in the Brea Beds are the deer, 



antelope. American ox. camel. Ameri a ant ground sloth. 



elephant and mastodon. 



