The Geography of MammalsK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1899 - 335 páginas |
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... tropical conditions are specially favourable to the development of this group . No less than twenty - eight genera , containing nearly one hundred species of Bats , are met with within the Region , and of these genera eight are not ...
... tropical conditions are specially favourable to the development of this group . No less than twenty - eight genera , containing nearly one hundred species of Bats , are met with within the Region , and of these genera eight are not ...
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... tropics , produce a luxuriant vegetation , and such a country as we should suppose would be espe- cially favourable to mammal - life . Yet mammals are by no means abundant in New Guinea and in the adjacent islands which constitute the ...
... tropics , produce a luxuriant vegetation , and such a country as we should suppose would be espe- cially favourable to mammal - life . Yet mammals are by no means abundant in New Guinea and in the adjacent islands which constitute the ...
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... tropical forests , seems to be extremely favourable to the presence of Bats , of which there are more than sixty species known to occur within its limits . More especially is this the case with the large fruit - eating bats of the genus ...
... tropical forests , seems to be extremely favourable to the presence of Bats , of which there are more than sixty species known to occur within its limits . More especially is this the case with the large fruit - eating bats of the genus ...
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... tropical parts of Australia and to the Papuan Sub - region rather than to the temperate portion of Australia , to which New Zealand is now nearest in point of actual distance . This connection is further confirmed by the soundings of ...
... tropical parts of Australia and to the Papuan Sub - region rather than to the temperate portion of Australia , to which New Zealand is now nearest in point of actual distance . This connection is further confirmed by the soundings of ...
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... tropical part of that continent . It is , indeed , probable that the whole of the fauna of New Zealand has been originally derived from that source , although in the greater number of cases it has undergone considerable modification ...
... tropical part of that continent . It is , indeed , probable that the whole of the fauna of New Zealand has been originally derived from that source , although in the greater number of cases it has undergone considerable modification ...
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Africa animals Ant-eater Antarctic Antelopes Arctic Armadillo Asia Atlantic Australian Region Bats beds belong birds Borneo boundary Bovida Cape Carnivora Celebes Central Chimpanzee Chiroptera closely allied coast confined considerable number contains Deer distinct districts Eastern Edentates endemic entirely Ethiopian Region Europe existing extends extinct fauna forests forms genera genus Geographical Distribution greater number inhabitants Insectivores islands known Lemurs Macacus Madagascar mainland Malagasy Malagasy Sub-region Malay Peninsula Malayan MAMMAL-FAUNA mammalian mammals Marsupials Monkeys Monotremes mountains naturalists Nearctic Region nearly Neotropical Region North northern number of genera number of species occur Ocean Old World Opossum Order Oriental Region Otaria Pacific Palearctic Region Papuan Sub-region Patagonia peculiar genera Phalanger Pinnipeds Pliocene present range recent remarkable represented restricted Rodents Sea-regions SECTION Sirenian South America Southern Sub-family Sumatra SUMMARY AND DEDUCTIONS Tapirs three genera total number tropical Ungulata Ungulates Viverrida Wallace's Line West African Western whole widely distributed Zealand