Freiburger historische Bestände - digital

EXPLANATION

OF

PLATE 25.

Fig. 1. Skull of the Elephant c, seen from the left side.

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2. m, ,,Chang". It is the fight half of the skull of Chang, the catoptric image

of which has been given here.

These two figures of respectively a very young and a quite old Elephant are to illustrate one of the most
prominent features in the development of the Elephantine skull, viz. that the skull is to an extraordinary degree
developed in height in comparison with its development in length. That part of the skull lying above the zygoma
as well as that lying below it have quite mightily increased in height in the old specimen. Notice also
the great development of the temporal groove of the same.