EXTINCT ANIMALS 



" outgrowths " of the skull, the chief horns 

 (the median and the large pair, of which only 

 the left-hand one is visible in the photograph) 

 originate as separate bony pieces, which, after 

 growing for a time as distinct bones, join tightly 

 to the skull. Sir Harry Johnston shot the five- 

 horned giraffe in the great " reserve " or pro- 

 tected area formed by the crater of the extinct 

 volcano ]Mount Elgon — some five miles across — 

 in the British Central African Protectorate of 

 Uganda. In less than three weeks from the 

 day on which he shot these specimens he w^as in 

 London, and brought the skins and skulls of the 

 specimens to the Natural History ^Museum ! 

 Central Africa, under the equator, can noAv be 

 reached in that short space of time. 



In ^Miocene times there were other large ani- 

 mals allied to the giraffe, but without so great 

 a length of neck. The giraffe family have 

 double hoofs, like the cattle, sheep, antelopes and 

 deer, to which the}' are allied — not single or 

 triple hoofs, like the horse family. Besides their 

 peculiar and very primitive horns they have 

 another small but definite pecuharity. The outer- 

 most of the group of eight front teeth in the 

 lower jaw corresponds in position to the canine 



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