Four feet, wings, and fins . teasing. While passing with acaravan through Africa, I have often seen themroaming at large. They are then the roughest andugliest animals upon the face of the earth. Theylive to be a hundred and twenty or thirty years belong to the order Tachydermata, which com-prises the largest terrestrial animals that live, andto the ElephantidcB family. To this family belongthe extinct genera Mammoth and Mastodo7ir See what a dreat bid long neck that horses dot!cried Rose, who had run on a step or two, still hold-ing Pats hand. • Thats a giraffe, or camelopard. It is
Four feet, wings, and fins . teasing. While passing with acaravan through Africa, I have often seen themroaming at large. They are then the roughest andugliest animals upon the face of the earth. Theylive to be a hundred and twenty or thirty years belong to the order Tachydermata, which com-prises the largest terrestrial animals that live, andto the ElephantidcB family. To this family belongthe extinct genera Mammoth and Mastodo7ir See what a dreat bid long neck that horses dot!cried Rose, who had run on a step or two, still hold-ing Pats hand. • Thats a giraffe, or camelopard. It is moreclosely allied to the deer than to any other head is somewhat like that of a horse except forthe horns. I dont see any horns, said May. Dont you see those horns, about six inches longand covered with a hairy skin ,^ asked Grace, 195 THE MENAGERIE. O, now I do. His heads so high up that itshard work to see so far. The giraffe is full seventeen feet high when heis erect. With his long neck he seems especially. adapted for feeding on the leaves of trees. He hasa long tongue which he can use something as theelephant use his trunk. He can twist it around a 196 THE MENAGERIE. branch and draw it down so that another giraffe canfeed on the leaves while he holds it; and then hecan eat, while his companion returns the favor byholding it down for him. The giraffe has a tail likea camel, and is spotted like the leopard. It is veryinoffensive, and usually seeks to run away from itspursuer though it is capable of making a stout
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