THE MAMMOTH 



The mammoth was like an Indian elephant, 

 but with a coarse hairy pelt and its tusks had a 

 shghtly different curvature from that seen in the 



Fig. 60. — Engravings on ivory and bone made by ancient men, 

 who lived in caves in the South of France at the time 

 when the mammoth, reindeer, bear and hyaena inhabited 

 Em*ope. The uppermost figure is that of a mammoth, 

 the others represent reindeer. 



Indian elephant. It was a little bigger than 

 the biggest Indian elephant. 



The mammoth has left its remains all over 

 the Holarctic region. Even in our own country 



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