Animals Before Man 



is small compared with one of the ancient dino- 

 saurs, it is a goodly amount of flesh to be car- 

 ried about on four legs. 



These great elephants are known mostly 

 from teeth and the larger bones, since they 

 were generally buried in sand or gravel. This 

 permits the bones to be wet at times, dry at 

 others, conditions under which bones soon go 

 to pieces. The structure of the teeth is coarser 

 than in the northern mammoth, and the plates 

 of enamel less in number. The tusks were 

 sometimes very large, but the largest pair on 

 record measure only 13 feet in length and 22 

 inches in circumference. These are in a skull 

 now on exhibition in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York city. 



The habitat of the southern mammoth, 

 roughly speaking, was northern Mexico and 

 the entire United States south of a line drawn 

 from Washington State to Washington city. 

 The northern part of its range overlapped that 

 of the northern species, so that remains of both 

 may be found in the same locality. 



The camel family was still prosperous, and 

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