Ivory and the elephant in art, in archaeology, and in science (1916)
Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932 · Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page · leaf 479
326 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT of Meritherium have been dug up, Sirenia with true hind limbs have been found, the rudimentary hip bones of the present manatee, without possible function, being evidently vestigial. Structural similarities have also been noted by anatomists between the elephants and the… … tailless, with short ears and hoof-like nails in place of the claws which would be expected from the general conforma- tion. Excepting the Syrian conies, of which the Book of Proverbs (xxx. 26) says that though “a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rock,” these animals are confined to…
Ivory · Ivory carving · Elephants
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