ABSTRACT
Animals undoubtely spread from the place or places of their origin and also from Eden, located somewhere in the region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. If the flood was world wide, authors need to account for such peculiar features of distribution as the kangaroo in Australia and the anteater in South America but neither of them in Asia Minor. The flood obviously occurred after men appeared. Fossil men are first found in the Pleistocene, the most recent of the geological strata, so the flood may be considered a late Pleistocene event. The Pleistocene epoch witnessed relatively little change in the structure of animals. The ranges of the Flicker and the Red-shafted Flicker overlap in the Great Plains, where hybrids occur, but in the Western United States the Red-shafted is common and in the Eastern part of the country occurs the Flicker, easily distinguished from the other by yellow instead of salmon color under the wings and tail.
