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ative anatomy, but unfortunately, such movements will 

 never occur again, for the larger mammals are located 

 probably where they are to meet their doom, for those 

 unprotected by man are on their way to extinction. The 

 highest mammal, man, now covers the face of the earth 

 and any other mammal must give way to make more 

 room for him. It is pitiful to see the last stand of the 

 buffalo on his protected ranges where man keeps a rigid 

 watch over him to protect him from other men. The free 

 running antelope finds himself running between great 

 stretches of barbed wire, where once nothing but the 

 horizon bounded his domain. The elk must depend upon 

 the bounty of man for his winter food, since his winter 

 ranges with their supply of hay have been utilized by the 

 rancher for his herds. The African game is going the 

 way of the buffalo in America. The enormous herds of 

 roving mammals have been thinned to the danger point, 

 and will disappear shortly unless they are protected in 

 certain restricted and suitable ranges, where they can 

 be kept for the future generations to see and enjoy. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Baker, F. C, (1920). The Life of the Pleistocene or Glacial period. 

 Osborn, H. F., (1910). The age of Mammals. 1913. 

 Scott, W. B., History of the land mammals of the Western Hemisphere. 

 Woods, F. E., (1910). A Study of the mammals of Champaign County, 



Illinois. 

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