Arizona republican., 1903-07-04
MYSTERIOUS ANIMALS WE DON'T
 KNOW.

In recent years, and especially since Sir Harry Johnston discovered the pre- historic okapi, still living in Africa, zoologists have been growing more and more willing to accept the belief that perhaps many of the so-called extinct animals still may be living in as yet unexplored parts of the world.
 What science is still willing to accept today in this line has just been sum- med up in an authoritative essay by the famous naturalist and Darwinist. Prof. Wilhelm Boelsche. He says:
 "The unicorn used to be an animal to be relegated without further argu- ment into the limbo of fable. It disap- peared from the field centuries ago when the first rhinoceros arrived in Europe. Then naturalists said that of course it was the rhinoceros that gave origin to the fable of the unicorn, the horse-like beast with a single horn sticking out straight from its head.
 But since that time. we have foupd the bones of a huge horse-like beast that actually did carry such single straight horn. We have named it elas- motherium.
 We know that the elasmotherium lived in the Rhine Valley and in Siberia as a contemporary of the mammoth.
 Now in Siberia the inhabitants of the unexplored tundra country talk to- day of both the mammoth and a mighty black beast with a single horn. Do they know the latter merely from hav- ing seen frozen specimen, as they have seen frozen specimens of the mammoth? Or did their fathers ac- tually hunt the beast? Or is this elas- nj al af all. but q living survival in some of the immense. never-explored tundras of Siberia? It is only recently that the world is finding out what herds of musk oxen still survive in the remote north in the midst of the ice.
 There are two possibilities for us naturalists: one in the survival of the prehistoric forms, and another is the possible existence of unknown forms in the territories that are still unvisited of us lords of creation. Every part of the earth that is marked 'uneXplored' has its phantom beast for us.
 There is the common wild horse. The cave dwellers of Europe scratched a picture of a queer little horse on peb- bles, cave walls, and pieces of bone. It was a funny, big-headed, short legged brute. Could there ever have been such a horse? We disputed about it for many years. Today the Berlin Zoologi- cal Garden has a pair of them which were caught in the steppes of inner Asia-the true primeval wild horse.
 Theoretically nothing stands in the way of the existence of the mammoth in Alaska, since it's colleagues of the glacial period the reindeer and the muskox, live there now.
 Two creatures certainly still are to be looked for in the northern Polar cir cle-the giant aux and Stellers sea COW. a colossus of the order of oceanic mammals. The great aux went lost in Iceland, the sea COW in the Boring Straits. We call them extinct now, yet we possess skins of the great aux and descriptions of the sea COW by persons who saw the living animal. The sea COW certainly still existed in the eigh- teenth century, and the auk survived in the nineteenth.
 But the geological wonderland is in Australia and New Zealand. A big lizard lives there today, which is the only living representative of the pre- historical saarians that formed the link between reptiles and reptilian fish. Now there are still stories of the eX istence of a mighty lizard, bigger than Q crocodile. Could such giant have survived? Travellers have crossed the interior and recrossed it without seeing one.
 But if the monster lizards do not survive, how about the moa of New Zealand, and the asovornic of Mada- gascar? Both are islands, are large and not nearly explored. May not the gigantic birds still. live in their deep est, most secret regions? Any number of folk in New Zealand believe in the moa absolutely. Great areas of the island have not been trodden by a sin gle naturalist. Lonely travellers tell. year after year, with perplexing regu-