hippopotamuses

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61:2.9The horse, an out­stand­ing ex­am­ple of evo­lu­tion, lived dur­ing these times in both North Amer­ica and Eu­rope, though his de­vel­op­ment was not fully com­pleted un­til the later ice age. While the rhinoceros fam­ily ap­peared at the close of this pe­riod, it un­der­went its great­est ex­pan­sion sub­se­quently. A small hog­like crea­ture also de­vel­oped which be­came the an­ces­tor of the many species of swine, pec­ca­ries, and hip­popota­muses. Camels and lla­mas had their ori­gin in North Amer­ica about the mid­dle of this pe­riod and over­ran the west­ern plains. Later, the lla­mas mi­grated to South Amer­ica, the camels to Eu­rope, and soon both were ex­tinct in North Amer­ica, though a few camels sur­vived up to the ice age.

64:4.7Mam­malian life had been lit­tle changed by the great glacier. These an­i­mals per­sisted in that nar­row belt of land ly­ing be­tween the ice and the Alps and, upon the re­treat of the glacier, again rapidly spread out over all Eu­rope. There ar­rived from Africa, over the Si­cil­ian land bridge, straight-tusked ele­phants, broad-nosed rhinoceroses, hye­nas, and African li­ons, and these new an­i­mals vir­tu­ally ex­ter­mi­nated the saber-toothed tigers and the hip­popota­muses.

64:4.2800,000 years ago game was abun­dant; many species of deer, as well as ele­phants and hip­popota­muses, roamed over Eu­rope. Cat­tle were plen­ti­ful; horses and wolves were ev­ery­where. The Ne­an­derthalers were great hunters, and the tribes in France were the first to adopt the prac­tice of giv­ing the most suc­cess­ful hunters the choice of women for wives.