Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Buffon , Georges­Louis De (1984-10-01), Histoire Naturelle, French & European Pubns, Retrieved on 2011-06-15
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    15 JUN 2011

     French Encyclopedists Disparage Wildlife in the New World

    We formerly remarked, as a singular phaenomenon, that the animals in the southern provinces of the New Continent, are small in proportion to those in the warm regions of the Old. There is no comparison between the size of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the camelopard, the camel, the lion, the tiger, &c. and the tapir, the cabiai, the ant-eater, the lama, the puma, the jaguar, &c. which are the largest quadrupeds of the New World: The former are four, six, eight, and...
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    Buffon states that mammals of North America are smaller and its Native Americans less developed than European life, owing to the continent's lack of resources and cold climate. Reptiles and insects thrive, however.

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