. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. MUSK DEER. Animals so peculiar that they form a tamily by them' selves are the Musk Deer, which, while closely related to the Deer proper, have many special traits of their own, including the secretion of musk. {Most fnts moschiferus.) beautiful eyes seem to indicate that it is an animal highly gifted mentally; but such is not the case, for it gives no proof whatever of superior intellectual powers: being a dull, uninteresting creature. It spends its day sle
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. MUSK DEER. Animals so peculiar that they form a tamily by them' selves are the Musk Deer, which, while closely related to the Deer proper, have many special traits of their own, including the secretion of musk. {Most fnts moschiferus.) beautiful eyes seem to indicate that it is an animal highly gifted mentally; but such is not the case, for it gives no proof whatever of superior intellectual powers: being a dull, uninteresting creature. It spends its day sleeping, ruminating and eating. One seldom hears the sound of its voice—a soft, low gurgle, resembling somewhat a note of the tremolo stop of an organ. Cloven*1boof^ IRoiwIRuminants. SECOND SUBORDER: Suin^. The second suborder of the Artiodactyla com- prises the non-ruminating Swine and Hippopotami, which may be collected into two families. £be Swine. EIGHTH FAMILY: The Swine have a laterally compressed body; the head is nearly conical in shape with a truncated muzzle, the tail is thin, long and curly, the elongated snout is broadened in front nto a disc, which con- tains the nostrils; the ears are of moderate size and are generally erect; the aperture of the lids of the eye is oblique and proportionately small; the legs an- slender and thin, the toes stand in pairs, the middle ones, which support the body, being mate- rially larger than the outer ones. A more or less dense coat of bristles covers the body. The female has numerous mamma; placed in two parallel rows on the abdomen. The skeleton shows light, graceful formations. All Swine have three kinds of teeth— incisors, canines, and molars — in the upper and lower jaws. The number of the incisors varies be- tween two and six in the upper jaw, and four and six in the lower; these teeth frequently drop out in old age, however. Canines exist always and are of very characteristic shape—three-edged, strongly curve
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