. The animals and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. Zoology; Physiology. THE STRUGGLE TO LIVE 403 member of this family in Madagascar has its sucking- tube fourteen inches long, which enables it to reach to the bottom of a great trumpet-shaped flower. Lions and tigers, wolves, and the like which feed upon other live animals must have specially developed legs and muscles for swift running, or springing, or swimming. The otter can swim and dive better than most fishes, and with his greater clever- ness has little difficulty in capturing the swiftest of them. The eagle
. The animals and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. Zoology; Physiology. THE STRUGGLE TO LIVE 403 member of this family in Madagascar has its sucking- tube fourteen inches long, which enables it to reach to the bottom of a great trumpet-shaped flower. Lions and tigers, wolves, and the like which feed upon other live animals must have specially developed legs and muscles for swift running, or springing, or swimming. The otter can swim and dive better than most fishes, and with his greater clever- ness has little difficulty in capturing the swiftest of them. The eagle has great talons for grasping its prey, and a strong hooked beak for tearing it. The pelican has a large pouch or sac on its lower jaw which it uses as a scoop-net for catch- ing fish. The spoon-bill duck takes up mouthfuls of mud and water which it strains out through a close fringe of small thin plates at the sides. The preying mantis (fig. 202) has great spiny fore legs for seiz- ing its prey, the unwary house- flies, on the window-panes, while the dragon-fly has a large mouth which it can open very wide, and can engulf in this fatal trap many tiny midges as it flies swiftly through their dancing swarms. Special means for protection.—Some animals have poison-fangs, like the rattlesnake and the ugly lizard of the desert called Gila monster, and others stings, like the scorpion, to kill their prey. These weapons are of course also used in self-defense. The same is true also of numerous other special means of food-getting, such as the power to run swiftly, to leap, and swim. But there are in addition. Fig. 202. A preying (Natural size.) 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 Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937; McCracken, Mary Isabel. New York, H. Holt and Company
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