Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect. (1907) (14752499241)
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Identifier: fivehundredfasci00mile (find matches)
Title: Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929
Subjects: Animal behavior Zoology
Publisher: New York, The Christian herald
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation
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CHEETAH (Gueparda jubata; FLESH-EATING ANIMALS. 43 attaining to a length of five and a half inches including thetail. The water shrew colonises on the banks of rivers.ORDER IV ^e orc*er °f flesh-eating animals (catnivora)Flesh-eating includes a large number of species among whichAnimals. are the lion, the tiger and the leopard, aswell as the cat and the dog. The two sub-orders intowhich this order is divided are: I, The Fissipedia, and II, ThePinnipedia. The Fissipedia are again divided into ten fami-lies; lions, cats, dogs, hyenas, weasels, and bears being themost important members. The Pinnipedia includes the seal,the sea lion, the walrus and their allies. Animals of the cat kind are distinguished The Fissipedia. b? their sharP and formidable claws, whichAnimals of the they can hide or extend at pleasure. TheyCat Kind. are remarkable for their rapacity, subsistingentirely on the flesh and blood of other animals. The dog,wolf, and bear, are sometimes known to live on vegetables,or f