The history of the investigation of the ancient gravel beds of the Somme is briefly this: More than one instance had been noted of the finding of flint implements, apparently the work of men, in association with bones of various animals, such as hyenas, mammoths, musk-sheep, and others, which, as we have just seen, lived in Europe during the Glacial Age. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)
We are, however, quite certain that when the climate was severe enough to permit such animals as the musk-sheep and the reindeer to inhabit South-western Europe, man must have been provided with an abundance of warm clothing, though doubtless rudely made and fashioned. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)
When the cold of the Glacial Age passed away, the musk-sheep, reindeer, and other animals, were driven out of Europe. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)
Arctic animals, such as musk-sheep and reindeer, lived all the year around in Southern France. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)
On the one hand, we find such animals as the musk-sheep, reindeer, and arctic fox, animals whose natural home is in high northern latitudes, where snow and ice prevail most of the year. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)
It need not surprise us, therefore, to learn of reindeer and musk-sheep feeding on stunted herbage in what now constitutes Southern France. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)
European race, known as the "Cave-men" because their remains are found in caves in Western Europe, always associated with the bones of arctic animals, such as the reindeer, the arctic fox, and the musk-sheep. ❋ William Henry Johnson (N/A)
Ibex and musk-sheep fell before my good old revolver, so that I lacked not for food in the higher altitudes. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
The musk-sheep is brown and conspicuous; but it is gregarious, and its safety depends upon its ability to recognise its kind and keep with the herd. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)
And this second list refutes the rival hypotheses: for the sable, the musk-sheep and the raven are as much exposed to the glare of the snow, and to the cold, as the other animals are. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)
The colour of the sable, then, though not white, serves for concealment; the colour of the musk-sheep serves a purpose more important than concealment; the raven needs no concealment. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)
Now, if we can give reasons for all the exceptions, the approximate generalisation may be converted into an universal one, thus: 'All arctic animals are white, unless (like the raven) they need no concealment either to prey or to escape; or unless mutual recognition is more important to them than concealment (as with the musk-sheep)'. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)
Musk itself is produced, as a scent attracting the opposite sex, by several animals -- musk-deer, musk-sheep, musk-rats. ❋ Unknown (1888)
A smell of musk is also given off by several plants: it is a sexual excitant in the musk-deer, the musk-sheep, and the crocodile. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)
The musk-sheep (_Ovibos moschatus_) is also brown, and contrasts sharply with the ice and snow, but it is protected from beasts of prey by its gregarious habit, and therefore it is of advantage to be visible from as great a distance as possible. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)
They have left no representatives among the present populations of Europe, but the musk-sheep, which always went and came with the Cave men, is to-day found only in sub-arctic America among the Eskimos, and the fossilized bones of the musk-sheep lie in a regular trail across the eastern hemisphere, from the Pyrenees through Germany and Russia and all the vast length of Siberia. ❋ John Fiske (1871)
I would suggest that during the Glacial period the ancestral Eskimos may have gradually become adapted to arctic conditions of life; that in the mild interglacial intervals they migrated northward along with the musk-sheep; and that upon the return of the cold they migrated southward again, keeping always near the edge of the ice-sheet. ❋ John Fiske (1871)
Africa; and their place was taken by a sub-arctic race of men known as the Cave men, along with the reindeer and arctic fox and musk-sheep. ❋ John Fiske (1871)
The colour of the raven and of the musk-sheep are, therefore, both inconsistent with any other theory than that the white colour of arctic animals has been acquired for concealment, and to that theory both afford a strong support. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
Other examples of such coloration are to be seen in the dusky tints of the musk-sheep and the reindeer, to whom recognition at a distance on the snowy plains is of more importance than concealment from their few enemies. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)
