. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. THE OTHER BEASTS 357 by man, and even domestic animals, such as goats and reindeer will spring upon and kill them. Numbers also die of disease, but they never turn back, they proceed ever onwards to their ultimate destination. In Russia and Asia there are two forms of mouse-like animals, specially modified for a subterranean life, having rudimentary external ears, and a short tail, and the claws of the fore-limbs greatly developed. In South- eastern Europe there is a still more completely sub-. THE MOLE-RAT. terranean rodent — the mole
. American types of animal life. Zoology; Animal behavior. THE OTHER BEASTS 357 by man, and even domestic animals, such as goats and reindeer will spring upon and kill them. Numbers also die of disease, but they never turn back, they proceed ever onwards to their ultimate destination. In Russia and Asia there are two forms of mouse-like animals, specially modified for a subterranean life, having rudimentary external ears, and a short tail, and the claws of the fore-limbs greatly developed. In South- eastern Europe there is a still more completely sub-. THE MOLE-RAT. terranean rodent — the mole-rat, Spalax, which is fiu'ther modified by having its eyes covered by the skin. An African mole-rat is called Bathyergus. Less com- pletely subterranean is the American pouched-rat or " pocket-gopher," which lives and burrows in the plains of the Mississippi, while allied fossorial forms are found in Canada, and America west of the Rocky Mountains. The jerboas are creatures with a kangaroo-like habit of progression. Their legs are very long, and the three middle-foot bones, which support their three toes, are anchylosed together into a sort of cannon-bone, as are. 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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