English: Glyptodon reticulatus
Identifier: horseitstreatm09axej (find matches)
Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
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ictiiration of the carapace after it hadbeen got rid of entirely. 498 THE IIOHSKS POSITION IX THE ANIMAl, WOIM.!) All other .spotted mammalia, whether marked longitudinally, trans-versely, or diagonally, are modifications of the jaguar. Stripes, whether longitudinal, transverse, or diagonal, are fusions oflines, of spots, or of rosettes; witness the spotting of certain cheetahs,of certain horses, and of certain tigers with twin stripes. In the self-coloured mammals. Dr. Bonavia contends, there is evidentlya total obliteration of all special markings, though they now and then turn
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Fig. G&i.—aii/jitodmc hum the remains exhibiteii iii the Natural History Museum,South Kensington up as atavic or ancestral marks, due perhaps to some atomic change orcrossing in the nerve-centres. Proceeding to the subject of coloration as it aftccts the horse, the animalwhich is most immediately under consideration, it is at least very remark-able to observe the curious mixture of colours in roan, jDiebald, .skewbald,grey, and dappled horses—the last term indicating a peculiar patternirre.spective of colour, as the dappling occurs in bay, brown, grey, and dun-coloured horses. It appears from the experience of breeders that dappled foals areunknown, the peculiar marking appears as the animal gets older; and itmust l)e admitted that in the figures in the accompanying plate (LXVIII) PLATE LXVlll
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