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...drought sooner than the small one ; if such alteration of elimate affect the quantity of vegctable food, the bulky herbivore will first feel the effects of stinted nourishment ; if new enemies are introduced, the large and conspicuous quadruped or bird will fall a prey, while the smaller species...

...adapted to exist in, will militate against that existence in a degree proportionate to the bulk of the species. If a dry season be gradually prolonged,...kinds conceal themselves and escape. Small quadrupeds are more prolific than large ones. Those of the bulk of the Mastodons, Megatheres, Glyptodons, and...

...prolonged, the large mammal will suffer from the drought sooner than the small one; if such alterations of climate affect the quantity of vegetable food,...stinted nourishment. If new enemies be introduced, the larger^and conspicuous quadruped" (and we may state the more helpless birds, if provided with none...

...militate against that existence in a degree proportionate, perhaps in a geometrical ratio, to the bulk of the species. If a dry season be gradually prolonged,...the effects of stinted nourishment ; if new enemies are introduced, the large and conspicuous quadruped or bird will fall a prey, whilst the smaller species...

...militate against that existence in a degree proportionate, perhaps in a geometrical ratio, to the bulk of the species. If a dry season be gradually prolonged,...the effects of stinted nourishment ; if new enemies are introduced, the large and conspicuous quadruped or bird will fall a prey, whilst the smaller species...

...generative powers, introduction of enemies, &c., by such characters of species as those of size : — ' If a dry season be gradually prolonged, the large...the effects of stinted nourishment ; if new enemies are introduced, the large and conspicuous quadruped or bird will fall a prey, whilst the smaller species...

...generative powers, introduction of enemies, &c., by such characters of species as those of size : — ' If a dry season be gradually prolonged, the large...the effects of stinted nourishment ; if new enemies are introduced, the large and conspicuous quadruped or bird will fall a prey, whilst the smaller species...

...generative powers, introduction of enemies, &c., by such characters of species as those of size : — ' If a dry season be gradually prolonged, the large...vegetable food, the bulky Herbivore will first feel the effect* of Btintod nourishment ; if new enemies are introduced, the largo and conspicuous quadruped...

...gradually prolonged, the large Mammal will suffer from the drought -sooner than the small one; if any alteration of climate affect the quantity of vegetable...will first feel the effects of stinted nourishment The actual presence, therefore, of small species of animals in countries where larger species of the...