NEW-BORN ELEPHANT'S SKULL 



It is not only in having a more elongated 

 face that the American mastodon is of a more 

 primitive build than the true elephants. Its 

 teeth also are less peculiar than those of true 

 elephants and more hke in number and shape 



Fig. 73. — Skull of a new-bom Indian Elephant, photographed 

 from a specimen in the Natm*al History Museum. 



to those of the ordinary, more central kinds 

 of mammals, such as the pig (see Fig. 50 in 

 the last lecture). The elephant has two 

 enormous incisor teeth in the upper jaw, 

 in front— the tusks. There are no corre- 



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