. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 584 THE POUCHED ANIMALS. KOALA OR AUSTRALIAN BEAR. The first sub-family is formed by only one genus and species, and presents to us one of the most re- markable of all the Pouched Animals, the Koala or Australian Bear (P/tasco/arctus dnereiis). The tail- less body is stout, the head very thick and short- snouted, the mouth is provided with cheek-pouches, the ear is large and overgrown with bushy hair, the fore and hinder paws have five toes and are
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 584 THE POUCHED ANIMALS. KOALA OR AUSTRALIAN BEAR. The first sub-family is formed by only one genus and species, and presents to us one of the most re- markable of all the Pouched Animals, the Koala or Australian Bear (P/tasco/arctus dnereiis). The tail- less body is stout, the head very thick and short- snouted, the mouth is provided with cheek-pouches, the ear is large and overgrown with bushy hair, the fore and hinder paws have five toes and are genuine hand-feet, or feet capable of seizing and holding an object. On the fore paws the two inner toes are opposed to the three others; the hinder feet have a strong, nailless, opposable thumb and toes of very. THE SPOTTED CUSCUS. One "I the handsomest of the Marsupials is the Spotted l ti in part of Australia, New Guinea and the islands north to the I hensile tail is long and is naked and scaly for its terminal half. The animal is a tree-dwellei and lives on vegetable food and also on such birds and mammals as it can overcome. I Phalanger maculatus.) unequal size, armed with sharp, long and curved nails, thus being eminently adapted for climbing. In respect to dentition, the unequal upper incisors, of which the first is the largest and strongest, the small canine teeth, and the grinders, provided with cusps, are worthy of notice, as special characteristics in which this animal differs from its relatives. The name of "Pouched Bear" is characteristic, for the Koala bears a striking likeness to a young Bear in shape, gait and general behavior. Its length is about twenty-four inches, the height at the withers about half as much. The color of the upper pari of the body is reddish ashy gray, the under sur- face is yellowish white; the outer sides of the cars are blackish gray. The Koala is indigenous to east Australia from Queensland to Victoria. It is nowhere comm
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