The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth's Surface, 1. köideHarper and brothers, 1876 |
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Page 11
... equal powers of dispersal ; so that wherever there is land and sufficient food , there are no limits to their possible range . Other groups of animals are more limited in their migra- tions . The apes , lemurs , and many monkeys are so ...
... equal powers of dispersal ; so that wherever there is land and sufficient food , there are no limits to their possible range . Other groups of animals are more limited in their migra- tions . The apes , lemurs , and many monkeys are so ...
Page 13
... equal widths of salt water , and if accidentally carried out to sea might sometimes succeed in reaching islands many miles distant . Contrary to the common notion pigs can swim remarkably well . Sir Charles Lyell tells us in his ...
... equal widths of salt water , and if accidentally carried out to sea might sometimes succeed in reaching islands many miles distant . Contrary to the common notion pigs can swim remarkably well . Sir Charles Lyell tells us in his ...
Page 37
... equal in extent to the water , while in the opposite hemisphere it is in the proportion of only one - eighth , —yet the whole of the land is almost continuous . It consists essentially of only three masses : the American , the Asia ...
... equal in extent to the water , while in the opposite hemisphere it is in the proportion of only one - eighth , —yet the whole of the land is almost continuous . It consists essentially of only three masses : the American , the Asia ...
Page 44
... equal , if not of greater importance . Every change becomes the centre of an ever - widening circle of effects . The different members of the organic world are so bound together by complex relations , that any one change generally ...
... equal , if not of greater importance . Every change becomes the centre of an ever - widening circle of effects . The different members of the organic world are so bound together by complex relations , that any one change generally ...
Page 53
... equal rank ; -2ndly , that they are not equally applicable to all classes of animals . As to the first objection , it will be found impossible to form any three or more regions , each of which differs from the rest in an equal degree or ...
... equal rank ; -2ndly , that they are not equally applicable to all classes of animals . As to the first objection , it will be found impossible to form any three or more regions , each of which differs from the rest in an equal degree or ...
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absence abundant Abyssinia affinities Africa and Madagascar allied Amphibia animals antelopes Arctic Asia Austral Australia Australian region Austro-Malaya belong birds Borneo Burmah Carnivora Celebes Central Ceylon characteristic China climate Coleoptera confined Cosmopolite Cosmopolite Cosmopolite deposits distribution east Eastern Hemisphere Eocene epoch Ethiop Ethiopian Ethiopian region Europe European excl existing extend extinct fauna forests Formosa genera genus geographical globe groups Guinea Himalayas hyænas India Indo-Malay inhabit Insectivora insects Japan Java land land-birds large number less lizards Madagascar Malacca Malay Malaya Malayan mammalia migration Miocene Miocene period Moluccas mountains Nearctic Neotropical North northern occur ocean Oriental genus Oriental region Palearctic Palearctic genus Palearctic region peculiar forms peculiar genera peculiar genus peculiar species perhaps Pliocene possesses Post-Pliocene probably range recent regions but Australian remarkable represented reptiles rhinoceros South America southern sub-region Sumatra Tasmania temperate Tertiary Thibet Timor Tropical Africa tropical regions types whole region wholly Zealand zoological regions