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Richard Lydekker, "soon found that the rabbits were a plague, for they devoured the grass, which was needed for the sheep, the bark of trees, and every kind of fruit and vegetable, until the prospects of the colony became a very serious matter, and ruin seemed inevitable.
In stomach of a 21 ft. specimen were found remains of 13 porpoises and 14 seals. A herd of white whales has been seen driven into a bay and literally torn to pieces. Teeth, large, conical, and slightly recurred, 11 or 12 on each side of either jaw. 'Mammals' Flower and Lydekker: 'Distinguished from all their allies by great strength and ferocity.
R. Lydekker, F.R.S., of the British Museum, the well-known naturalist and specialist in big game, who wrote to tell me that it possessed great zoological interest, as showing the existence of a hitherto unknown race of eland. Mr.
For instance, there are some twenty odd "species" of wild pigs scattered over the Old World, which Flower and Lydekker assure us would probably "breed freely together." The yak and the zebu of India, and the bison of America, would on this basis have to be surrendered, for it is well known that they will all breed freely with the common domestic cattle, as well as with one another.
Lydekker also contributed the following notice describing the animal to The Field of September 29, 1906: "Considerable interest attaches to the head of an eland, killed by Colonel J.H. Patterson in Portuguese East Africa, and set up by Mr.
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