. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. :>:>)> THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP, once into dwelling-houses, where fchey lie as comfortably as the hermit-crab in ;i whelk-shell. Man also makes use of these horns, by converting them into various articles of domestic economy. It is a, mountain-loving animal, being found on the highest grounds of Southern Siberia and the mountains of Centra] Asia, and no1 fond of descending to the level ground. Its power of limb and sureness of fool are truly marvellous when the great size of the
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. :>:>)> THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP, once into dwelling-houses, where fchey lie as comfortably as the hermit-crab in ;i whelk-shell. Man also makes use of these horns, by converting them into various articles of domestic economy. It is a, mountain-loving animal, being found on the highest grounds of Southern Siberia and the mountains of Centra] Asia, and no1 fond of descending to the level ground. Its power of limb and sureness of fool are truly marvellous when the great size of the animal is taken inl consideration. If disturbed while feeding in the valley, it makes at once for the rocks, and Hies up their craggy surfaces with wonderful ease anil rapidity. Living in such localities, they are liable to suffer ureal changes of temperature, and are sometimes wholly enveloped in the deep snow-drifts that are so common upon mountainous regions. In such cases they lie quietly under the snow in a manner similar to that which has already been related of the hare under the same circumstances, and are able to continue respiration by means of a small breathing-hole through the snow. For these imprisoned Argalis the hunters eagerly search, as the animal is deprived of its fleet and powerful limbs, and is forced igno-. ARGALI.— ( aprovis argali. ininiously to succumb to the foe. who impales him by driving his spear through the snow into the creature's body. Like others of the same group, it is gregarious, and lives in small flocks. Another example of the Mouflons may lie found in the Big-horn, or Rooky Mountain Siikki-, of California. This animal is not at all uncommon in its native land, where it maybe found in little troops of twenty oi- thirty in number, inhabiting the craggiest and most inaccessible rocks. From these posts of vantage they never wander, but are content, to find their food upon the little knolls of given herbage that are found sprinkled among the
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