. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. THE OTHER BEASTS 359 times do not return home before sunrise. They will actively defend themselves, charging at their foes, and at the same time erecting their spines, so that dogs are often very severely injured, or even killed by them. There are some eight different species, and there are also four. THE TRI-COLOURED TREE-PORCUPINE. species of brush-tailed porcupines, each having a long tail with a tuft of spines towards its tip. In America, from Canada to Southern Brazil, we also meet with porcupines of a different kind. In Brazil th
. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. THE OTHER BEASTS 359 times do not return home before sunrise. They will actively defend themselves, charging at their foes, and at the same time erecting their spines, so that dogs are often very severely injured, or even killed by them. There are some eight different species, and there are also four. THE TRI-COLOURED TREE-PORCUPINE. species of brush-tailed porcupines, each having a long tail with a tuft of spines towards its tip. In America, from Canada to Southern Brazil, we also meet with porcupines of a different kind. In Brazil there are true porcupines with a long prehensile tail in harmony with their arboreal habits. The Andes of Peru and Chili possess a rodent which may be said, as far as its exterior is concerned, to be the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. Boston, Little, Brown and Company
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