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14 DAY CALL ODD WAYS THAT WILD ANIFIALS HAVE OF FCEDING THEMISELVES. “Young Racehorses™ that the t the horse, which meet, do far mor \an those in the p: knives, s and & ns. and sieves, : mouth of the ox In the kangaroos we find the larg sors in the lower jaw cropping like seissors Birds, or those at any nowadays outside of p; lections, have no teeth; to represent them. unless we s za the serrated edges of the mand » 3 some fish-eating kinds that w no ‘ : ticed later. Among the tiles. tie lower than the bird tended for se and their kind whole, after the m eadful rattlesnak two upper tubular far the ecreat wheney and it is through t h infused In for this reas t eble immediate ‘ of any prey and not greed o % alleged at the time i cident at the Zoc v v two pythors, worlk s of e ' 1 the same foad, met in the > hop w ’ A ane " - 4 find supplemer . : 7o to replace t n . ly‘ bave worn r ace . dered them 1 in s o ‘ ‘ ys, nota r v of the male d . : bl ma v s e it a s so power & it - Iy S v str nt to w be found that as a sort mals” having such of ‘s 2 maple s = dispensed with he clated with the r from deep flo remarked on t it is no loi In fishes the tongue is probabl lowest stage of activity, but in and amphibi seems to play a mc niembers of its own order. Eschricht, a part than in animal « overed, sunk deep We no longer suspect ir g whalebone whales, of poisonov Saadt 3 this discovery gives do we belie t whether in bygone ages - e whales ot also | n full grown, r c It so, - their Insect food with gues. Most " wonderful of all, however. is the tongus f the chameleon and one of the m n . gular sights, of many, at the Zo ¥ chameleon on the feed, as, rolling f k eye then the other, grasping its p ¢ t of the w lom te more tightly in its strange bandlike the chameleon catches the mealworm black beetles | with a lightning but the fastest shutters in the pher’s outfit. ' 8o remarkable is business that v for the cre they came purpe The hand is, as might be expectad less importance to the lower a ) to- man. In the majority of birds, w such exceptions as the parrots and s others, the beak combines t of mouth and hands. The eagle & symbol of strength and sa @eal for the character of its owr the hand of the ourangoutang. r man and less rapacious | cording to Dr. Wallace, at the hardest fruits of the Mal Still more remarkable is s wirelike fingers,” as Forbe of the grewsome looking ay immedtately be- of the precise y pair I t recollect heard any factory explanation. In the teeth of grazing find the chief practical e comparative damage do to the agascar, with which that grass; and in this connection Sir Walter sEascar. with which that -1 Gilbey has shown by diagrams in his Jiele Eown even to th F ] 4 N\ \ for insect food. F. G. AFLALO. nals we shall terest to e in CLAW O ANTEATER ..