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kind, the mastodon and deinotherium. Antelopes and gazelles
wandered above in enormous troops the plans of Hungary, Spain and
Southern France. Carnivorous animals that resemble to tigers and
hyenas found abundance of food. Herds of foal
animals fed on the rich herbage of the lawns. The birds were
greatly it represented. In the wood you/he/she would be seen raw of
gaylies feathered paroquets and trogons. On the secretary of plans-
birds chased the snakes and reptiles that furnished them
food--and eagles were on the clock for their prey. It lifts with a crane passed to ford
in the rivers for fish. Geese, herons, and pheasants have to have
is abundant.
Our principal centers of interest in the order Quadrumana. We owe
you remember that this order appeared in the Eocene. A lot of kind
it was present in the Miocene. They wandered in the forests of
France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy and undoubtedly it founded
abundant food in the fig trees and bread-fruit, walnut-trees, almonds,
dates and the other walnut-trees that grow there.<36 > One of the more anymore
main point is considered belonging to the same kind as the
Gibbons.<37 > This is the kind that has been concerned sometimes
as making a nearer approach to equip that some other monkey.<38>
However, others consider him/it as belonging to an extinct
family.<39 > There was at least besides this kind
three other kinds: there was not so any absence of the life scimmiesca in
the Miocene.<40>
From I squirt him/it we have drawn so far some age of Miocene it,
it seems to have been a very favorable in every respect.
A writer < 41 > he/she affirms, that "the world never experimented a more
beautiful period." And indeed it seems as if the facts are born out
this affirmation. A genial climate, moderate was the rule, also
to northern and tall latitudes. We don't have need to doubt but that there
it was plain grassy, wooded slant and rolling rivers. It was man
present to take advantage of all these favorable outskirtses?
He wandered through the evergreen forests, and it chases the buck,
antelope and hogs--the hipparions and mastodons, and