EXTINCT ANIMALS 



ditions not very clear, most of them left this 

 region and migrated to the southern projecting 

 regions. 



One of the most curious results of this emigra- 

 tion is that at the present day the tapir is found 

 aUve in the island of Sumatra and that it is 

 found alive also in Central America. At one 

 time naturahsts were much surprised to find a 

 tapir in the new world like the tapir in the old 

 world, and nowhere else but in these limited 

 spots, remote from each other. But now we 

 know that tapirs existed all over the Holarctic 

 region, for we find there their fossil remains ; 

 we recognize them by the shape of their teeth 

 and bones which we dig up. Even in England, 

 in Suffolk, we find the tapir in the deposit 

 known as the Red Crag, and again in different 

 parts of Germany, France and Greece, and even 

 in China and in North America, tapirs are found 

 buried in the sands of Pliocene and Miocene age. 

 The present race of tapirs existing in the East 

 Indies and in Central America are as it were 

 the outlying survivors of those which existed 

 formerly all over the great Holarctic region. 



Such facts as these about the tapir indicate 

 the importance of knowing where particular 



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