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 - 503 pages |
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Page xvii
... Range of Mammals ( p . 11 ) --- Valleys and Rivers as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 12 ) -Arms of the Sea as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 13 ) -Ice - floes and drift - wood as aiding the Dispersal of Mammals ( p . 14 ) —Means of Dispersal of ...
... Range of Mammals ( p . 11 ) --- Valleys and Rivers as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 12 ) -Arms of the Sea as Barriers to Mammals ( p . 13 ) -Ice - floes and drift - wood as aiding the Dispersal of Mammals ( p . 14 ) —Means of Dispersal of ...
Page 11
... range . Other groups of animals are more limited in their migra- tions . The apes , lemurs , and many monkeys are so strictly adapted to an arboreal life that they can never roam far beyond the limits of the forest vegetation . The same ...
... range . Other groups of animals are more limited in their migra- tions . The apes , lemurs , and many monkeys are so strictly adapted to an arboreal life that they can never roam far beyond the limits of the forest vegetation . The same ...
Page 12
... range more than about 10 ° beyond the southern and 12 ° beyond the northern tropic , while the great bulk of the species are found only within an equatorial belt about 30 ° wide . But as these animals are almost exclusively fruit ...
... range more than about 10 ° beyond the southern and 12 ° beyond the northern tropic , while the great bulk of the species are found only within an equatorial belt about 30 ° wide . But as these animals are almost exclusively fruit ...
Page 13
... range . In other cases , however , it is the river rather than the valley which is the barrier . In the great Amazonian plains many species of monkeys , birds , and even insects are found up to the river banks on one side but do not ...
... range . In other cases , however , it is the river rather than the valley which is the barrier . In the great Amazonian plains many species of monkeys , birds , and even insects are found up to the river banks on one side but do not ...
Page 17
... ranges whenever these rise above the woody region . Great rivers , such as the Amazon , also limit the range of many birds , even when there would seem to be no difficulty in their crossing them . The supply of food , and the kind of ...
... ranges whenever these rise above the woody region . Great rivers , such as the Amazon , also limit the range of many birds , even when there would seem to be no difficulty in their crossing them . The supply of food , and the kind of ...
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