Crossword-Solution: CAMELID 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Well, here it is," and Cooper turned toward a large enclosure where several members of the family _Camelidæ_ were peacefully browsing, with the exception of one that lay in a corner with drooping head and closed eyes, apparently lifeless.

Thus camels, guanacoes, chevrotains and musk-deer, are hornless, and they have efficient canines; these teeth being “always of smaller size in the females than in the males.” The Camelidæ have in their upper jaws, in addition to their true canines, a pair of canine-shaped incisors.[314] Male deer and antelopes, on the other hand, possess horns, and they rarely have canine teeth; and these when present are always of small size, so that it is doubtful whether they are of any service in their battles.

This was an animal related to the living camel, thus supporting the view that the _Camelidæ_ are essentially denizens of the extra-tropical zone.

The Camelidæ are very abundant, and form one of the most striking features of the ancient fauna of America.

Later, it received its Camelidæ, peccaries, mastodons, and large Carnivora; and later still, just before the Glacial epoch, its deer, tapir, opossums, antelopes, and horses, the two latter having since become extinct.