Mammilia, their various forms and habits, adapted by E.P. WrightC. Petter & Galpin, 1875 |
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Mammilia, their various forms and habits, adapted by E.P. Wright Louis Guillaume Figuier Vista de fragmentos - 1875 |
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Africa African Elephant America animal antlers appearance Asia attack Bear become belonging body breed brown burrow called carnivorous Cetacea claws coat colour covered creature Deer digitigrade domestic ears Elephant Europe eyes Fallow Deer feed feet female flesh forests France frequently furnished genus Greenland ground habits hair head herds Hippopotamus horns Horse hunt hunter inches incisors Indian inhabits Jardin des Plantes killed legs length less limbs Lion live male mammæ Mammalia mane Marsupials menagerie mètres Mole mouth Musk Musk Deer muzzle Narwhal natives naturalists neck nostrils peculiar possess prey quadrupeds race Red Deer regions Reindeer remarkable Rhinoceros Rodents Rorqual Ruminants shape Sheep short Siberia skin sometimes South America species Stag surface tail Tapir teeth terminated thick toes trees trunk tusks upper Whale wild winter wool wounded young
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Página 177 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? »the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage : neither believeth he that it is the sound...
Página 153 - The eyes of the rhinoceros are small and sparkling, and do not readily observe the hunter, provided he keeps to leeward of them. The skin is extremely thick, and only to be penetrated by bullets hardened with solder. During the day the rhinoceros will be found lying asleep or standing indolently in some retired part of the forest, or under the base of the mountains, sheltered from the power of the sun by some friendly grove of umbrella-topped mimosas. In the evening they commence their nightly ramble,...
Página 61 - The physalis occurs in great numbers in the Arctic seas, especially along the edge of the ice, between Cherie Island and Nova Zembla, and also near Jan Mayen. Persons trading to Archangel have often mistaken it for the common whale. It is seldom seen among much ice, and seems to be avoided by the mysticetus ; as such, the whale fishers view its appearance with painful concern.
Página 153 - They usually visit the fountains between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at night, and it is on these occasions that they may be most successfully hunted, and with the least danger. The black rhinoceros is subject to paroxysms of unprovoked fury, often plowing up the ground for several yards with its horns, and assaulting large bushes in the most violent manner.
Página 84 - Sletbag" of the Icelanders, and that the following facts have been ascertained regarding it : — 1st, that it is much more active than the Greenland Whale, much quicker and more violent in its movements, and accordingly both more difficult and dangerous to capture ; 2nd, that it is smaller (it being, however, impossible to give an exact statement of its length) and has much less blubber ; 3rd, that its head is shorter, and that its whalebone is comparatively small and scarcely more than half the...
Página 317 - ... repast. Their killing snakes is doubtless quite fabulous. The young are born either in June or July, and almost every female brings forth yearly, and often twins. These are always deposited in separate places some distance from each other, the dam herself keeping apart from both, and only visiting to give them suck. Should a young one be caught, its bleating will sometimes bring the old one to the spot, but I never knew an instance of one being seen abroad with its dam, or of two young ones being...
Página 317 - ... along the edge of such a ledge or precipice, in preference to the forest. If not walking leisurely and slowly along, the musk-deer always goes in bounds, all fours leaving and alighting on the ground together. When at full speed, these bounds are sometimes astonishing for so small an animal. On a gentle slope, I have seen them clear a space of more than sixty feet at a single bound, for several successive leaps, and spring over bushes of considerable height at the same time.
Página 154 - we observed the tracks of a rhinoceros, and, soon after unyoking our oxen, the men requested to be allowed to go in search of the beast. This I readily granted, only reserving a native to assist me in kindling the fire and preparing our meal. While we were thus engaged, we heard shouting and firing ; and, on looking in the direction whence the noise proceeded, discovered, to our horror, a rhinoceros rushing furiously at us at the top of his speed. Our only chance of escape was the wagon, into which...
Página 317 - It is amusing to see them suck ; all the while they keep leaping up and crossing their fore-legs rapidly over each other. They are rather difficult to rear, as many, soon after they are caught, go blind and die. In most of the hill-states the musk-deer is considered as royal property. In some, the Rajahs keep men purposely to hunt it ; and in Gurwhal a fine is imposed upon any Puharrie who is known to have sold a musk-pod to a stranger — the Rajah receiving them in lieu of rent.
Página 82 - He was sufficiently well trained to allow himself to be harnessed to a car, in which he drew a young lady round the tank ; he learned to recognize his keeper, would allow himself to be handled by him, and at the proper time would come and put his head out of the water to receive the harness or take food.