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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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o the Cape of Good Hope. Whether they ascend the eastern coast of Africa, or are replaced there by the Asiatic species, is not yetascertained. The tusks of the female are as large asthose of the male, and the weapon itself is generallylarger than in the preceding. This animal is notnow tamed in Africa, though it appears that the Car-thaginians employed it in the same way that theinhabitants of India do theirs. In nearly every part of the two Continents, arefound, under ground, the bones of a species of Ele-phant alUed to that of India, but the grinders ofwhich bear straighter and narrower eminences, thesockets for the reception of the tusks are much longer,and the lower jaw is more obtuse. A specimen re-cently taken from the ice on the coast of Siberia, byMr. Adams, appears to have been densely coveredwith hair of two kinds, so that it is possible that thisspecies may have hved in cold climates. It [is termedthe Mammoth Elephant {E. primogenius, Cuv.), and]has long been quite extinct.
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The second geuus of Proboscideans, or that of The Mastodons (Mastodon, Cuv.),—Has l>een quite destroyed, no species of it being now alive. They had the feet, tusks, trunk, and manyother details of conformation the same as the Elephants; but their grinding teeth differed in havinglarge conical tubercles above the gum, which, by detrition, were reduced to disks of various size, thatrepresent sections of the tubercles, (a conformation common to the Mastodon, Hippopotamus, Pig,&c., which has induced the erroneous idea that the first were carnivorous). These grinders, whichsucceeded each other from behind as in the Elephants, present also so many pairs of points, as tjieanimal was advanced in age. [There are smaU tusks in the lower jaw of the immature Mastodon, inwhich state it is the Tetracaulodon of Godman.] The Great Mastodon (J/, giganteum, Cuv), in which the tubercles were lozengCShaped, is the species most cele-brated. It equalled the Elephant in size, but with still heavier
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