. Guide leaflet. ANTEATERTamattdua letradactyla PHOLIDOTA, Scaly Anteaters, Pangolins, Manids—one ofthe cases where the so-called common name conveys noidea to the average person. The members of this orderare distinguished by being clad in overlapping hornyscales which offer a pretty good protection when theanimal coils up with the tail outside. They are confined toTropical Africa south of the Sahara, and southern species is noteworthy as having the longest tail of anyMammal, fifty-two vertebrae, one for every week in theyear. 10 EFFODIENTIA, the Aard varks, so called in allusion to t
. Guide leaflet. ANTEATERTamattdua letradactyla PHOLIDOTA, Scaly Anteaters, Pangolins, Manids—one ofthe cases where the so-called common name conveys noidea to the average person. The members of this orderare distinguished by being clad in overlapping hornyscales which offer a pretty good protection when theanimal coils up with the tail outside. They are confined toTropical Africa south of the Sahara, and southern species is noteworthy as having the longest tail of anyMammal, fifty-two vertebrae, one for every week in theyear. 10 EFFODIENTIA, the Aard varks, so called in allusion to theirburrowing habits, though the order has also been termedTubulidentata in reference to the structure of the teethwhich are composed of little tubes placed on end. Tins order includes only two species of animals foundin the warmer parts of Africa and formerly placed withthe AARD VARK Orycteropus (iter UNGULATA, the Hoofed Mammals, including such wellknown forms as sheep, deer, antelope, camels, cattle andhorses. The vast majority of large quadrupeds belong inthis order whose members are widely distributed over theearth, save Australasia, and were abundant until killedoff by man. They are most numerous in Africa, least nu-merous in South America and there are none in Australia. HYRACOIDEA, Hyraxes or Dassies, neither of which com-mon names conveys any meaning, being a good illustra-tion of the fact that a so-called common name may bejust as meaningless to the majority of people as a scientificname. An order including a few species of small mammalslooking something like rabbits, but not at all like them inany part of their structure and really related to theRhinoceroses. The species found in Syria is the coney n mentioned in the Bible, The conies are but a feeblefolk, yet make they their homes in the rocks.
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