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skull. This extreme shortening or pushing in 

 (as it were) of the face is similar to what occurs 

 in bulldogs and pugs as compared with ordinary 

 long-snouted dogs, as is shown in Fig. 71, only 

 in the elephant it is carried further than in any 



Fig. 70. — Skull of an adult Indian Elephant. The skull is 

 placed in position, so that the grinding surface of the 

 molar teeth is horizontal. 



dog. We may call this shortening of the face 

 "bull-dogging." This "bull-dogging" of the 

 skull occurs in a South American race of cattle 

 called the Neatta breed. It seems that the 

 ancestral elephants must have had a long face 



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