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The Giraffe and the Zebu are the only ruminants, the one in a state 

 of nature, and the other domesticated, \\'hich continue to reproduce 

 distinct vestiges of ancestral skin markings, allied to those of the 



Fig. 58. — Zebu, from a photograph, F. G. O. S., 10004. 



Horse and the Jaguar. Indeed, if the rosettes on the flanks of the 

 Jaguar skin of Fig. 4 had their enclosed spaces filled up they would 

 become Giraffe blotches, and if we trim the rosettes of the Zebu and 

 fill in their scolloped margins, we again reproduce the blotches of 

 the Giraffe. In the Quagga we have seen that the stripes dis- 



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