. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. LITTLE GALAGO LEMUR. This little creature is a native of Madagascar. Its well-formed head and ears, long tail and sym- metrical limbs, of which the hinder ones are the longest, are brought out in the picture. It accumulates fat around its tail and in different parts of its body upon which it subsists during the dry season, when it coils itself up in a hole in a tree and practically hibernates. {Mi- crocebus myoxinus.) My first pet had to go hungry for some t
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. LITTLE GALAGO LEMUR. This little creature is a native of Madagascar. Its well-formed head and ears, long tail and sym- metrical limbs, of which the hinder ones are the longest, are brought out in the picture. It accumulates fat around its tail and in different parts of its body upon which it subsists during the dry season, when it coils itself up in a hole in a tree and practically hibernates. {Mi- crocebus myoxinus.) My first pet had to go hungry for some time, as he scorned vegetable food, and I could not procure Grasshoppers at once. He looked very funny when I used to feed him. He would then stand on his two long, thin legs and his tail, and turn his round head, furnished with two huge yellow eyes, first one way, then another, looking for all the world like a lantern on a tripod. By degrees he would succeed in focusing his eyes on the proffered object; then would stretch out his arms like a child, quickly seize his prey and deliberately devour it. In the daytime he was sleepy, dull and cross when disturbed ; at dusk he awakened and his pupils di- lated. At night he moved about noiselessly and rapidly, and generally sideways. He was easily tamed but died soon after I got him. A second pet of the same group also lived but a short time. THIRD FAMILY: Leptodactyla. About a hundred years ago the traveler Sonnerat received two animals from the western coast of Madagascar, animals of whose existence nobody had as yet been aware. Even on the opposite coast they were entirely unknown ; at least the natives assured Sonnerat that they had never seen such crea- tures. They exhibited great astonishment and their exclamation, "Aye, Aye!" was the name the natu- ralist chose for his newly-discovered animals. The Aye-Aye brought to Europe by Sonnerat re- mained for a long time the only known specimen, and his description, dated 1782,
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