. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE CLIMBIXG MARSUPIALS-COOSOOS. oba them, are among the queerest members of the Weasel tribe on Amboina. "The head heirs much resem- blance to that of a Rat or a Fox. The end of the tail is bare and prehensile; with it they cling so firmly to branches that one can pull them off only with a great effort. On the Moluccas also they do. KOALA OE AUSTRALIAN POUCHED BEAR. Combining many â¢characteristics of tiie Bear and the Sloth, although a true
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE CLIMBIXG MARSUPIALS-COOSOOS. oba them, are among the queerest members of the Weasel tribe on Amboina. "The head heirs much resem- blance to that of a Rat or a Fox. The end of the tail is bare and prehensile; with it they cling so firmly to branches that one can pull them off only with a great effort. On the Moluccas also they do. KOALA OE AUSTRALIAN POUCHED BEAR. Combining many â¢characteristics of tiie Bear and the Sloth, although a true Marsupial, the Koala, with its short, thickset body, short snout and large head is one of the most singular and interesting arboreal animals of Australia and Tasmania. cutereus.) not live in burrows, but on the trees, in the woods, â¢especially where there are tree-nuts. There are more of them on Ceram and Buru than on Amboina, for on the latter island they fear the people, who catch them in a peculiar way and eat them; for they are a delicacy for the natives, and when fried, the flesh tastes like that of a Rabbit. To capture one of these animals the hunt- er must stare fixedly at it â when it is suspended by its tail; this will cause it to let ^o in fear and it will fall from the tree. However, it is not given to every one to be able to 'look a Cus- â¢cus off a tree.' The animals eat green leaves, the outer shells of canary nuts, pisang and other succulent fruits. While eating they sit like Squirrels. Between the hinder legs is a pouch, in which from two to four young are ; In the forests all known species feed on fragrant fruit; in confinement they also eat raw meat, in default of vegetable food. Their conduct in the cage or in a room is as little prepos- sessing as their looks. particularly stupid and dull; at night the eyes glow like those of other nocturnal animals: then they re- semble the Loris in many respects. THE COOSOOS. The Coosoos (
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