134 ANIMALS OF THE PAST 
like their modern relatives, they were dressed 
for the climate in a woolly covering. We 
think of the tiger as prowling through the 
jungles of India, but he ranges so far north ; 
that in some localities this beast preys upon ~ 
reindeer, which are among the most northern © 
of large mammals, and there the tiger is clad © 
in fairly thick fur. 
When we come to coloring a reconstructed ~ 
animal we have absolutely no guide, unless we © 
assume that the larger a creature the more so- — 
berly will it be colored. ‘The great land ani- 
mals of to-day, the elephant and rhinoceros, to — 
say nothing of the aquatic hippopotamus, are — 
very dully colored, and while this sombre col- 
oration is to-day a protection, rendering these 
animals less easily seen by man than they 
otherwise would be, yet at the time this color 
was. developing man was not nor were there 
enemies sufficiently formidable to menace the 
race of elephantine creatures. | 
For where mere size furnishes sufficient pro- — 
tection one would hardly expect to find pro- 
was not particularly mild; the animals were ; 
simply adapted to it; instead of being naked 
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