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UPPER canine teeth do not persist in either sex throughout the Bovidæ, but the occurrence of these teeth even in young animals at any stage of development has seldom been recorded. Regarding the antelopes, Forsyth Major in 19041 stated that “deciduous upper canines have not often been recorded.” I can find only five writers who mention them”. He himself added notes upon their presence in five species, mostly in very young or fætal individuals, and came to the conclusion “that calcified rudimentary milk-canines will be found to be normally present in all fætal and most very young Antelopes, and that it is owing to the scarcity of fætal and very young skulls in our Museums that they have not been observed more frequently” (p. 422).
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Forsyth Major, C. I., Proc. Zoo. Soc. Lond., 1, 420 (1904).
Nehring, A., S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin, 136 (1884).
Lönnberg, Einar, Ark. Zool. Stockholm, 29B, No. 1, 1 (1937).
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RITCHIE, J. Upper Canine Teeth in the Indian Antelope (Antilope cervicapra). Nature 145, 859 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145859a0
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