The Current Diversity of Large Mammals (IMAGE)

Aarhus University

The Current Diversity of Large Mammals

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Fig 2: The current diversity of large mammals is shown. It can clearly be seen that large numbers of species virtually only occurs in Africa, and that there are generally far fewer species throughout the world than there could have been.

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Illustration: Soren Faurby.

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