Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History

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Identifier: animallifeworldo119021903lond (find matches)
Title: Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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e habit of passing more or less of theirtime underground, the stoat and the weasel itself, for instance, having light under-parts. A still greater puzzle is presented by certain large herbivorous mammals—notablythe wapiti and the Indian nilgai—in which the under-parts are also much darker thanthe back. That is to say, these creatures are coloured on a plan precisely the opposite Some Instances of ColourProtection in Mammals 295 of the one obtaining in animals like the kiang and the gazelles, where protection isevidently the object. The nilgai is generally met with in open country or thin scrub,while the wapiti may be found either in forest or on open hillsides. Considering thatother deer show protective coloration, it is scarcely likely that the wapiti is an exception;nor does it seem probable that the nilgai does not need protection by this means.In what way (if at all) such a peculiar type of coloration harmonises with the surround-ings of fhecp nniiPfils: nwnits PX)ilaniiti(in.
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I-linli«jr,iiili by Lord Del SOMALI GIRAFFES IN COVEKHow many are Ihero? The foregoing are only a few out of many striking instances of the harmony existingbetween the colouring and the environment of mammals. Did space permit, otherdifficulties connected with the srrbject might advantageously have been discussed. ButI have already largely exceeded editorial limits, and must therefore bring my remarksto a somewhat abrupt ending.

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