Elephants and lions are found in the interior.
They are famous, too, as hunters of big game, attacking even elephants with sword and spear.
The mode of succession of the teeth in the mastodons exhibits so many stages of the process by which the dentition of elephants has been derived from that of more ordinary mammals.
Elephants, tigers, bears, leopards and other wild animals are found.
In this connexion it is of interest to note that, both in the Mediterranean islands and in West Africa, dwarf elephants of the African type are accompanied by pigmy species of hippopotamus, although we have not yet evidence to show that in Africa the two animals occupy actually the same area.
