. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. d around itsenclosure. The capacitywhich this class of animalspossesses of requiring foodonly at long intervalsaccounts for the animallying for weeks in a quietand almost torpid when the feeling ofhunger asserts itself, theyrouse themselves fromtheir long repose, and thevoracity of their appetite isthen as remarkable as theirprevious indifference. In a 272 Animal Life state of confinement the boa takes food atintervals of a month or six weeks during thewarmer months. The following account of aboa being made use of
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. d around itsenclosure. The capacitywhich this class of animalspossesses of requiring foodonly at long intervalsaccounts for the animallying for weeks in a quietand almost torpid when the feeling ofhunger asserts itself, theyrouse themselves fromtheir long repose, and thevoracity of their appetite isthen as remarkable as theirprevious indifference. In a 272 Animal Life state of confinement the boa takes food atintervals of a month or six weeks during thewarmer months. The following account of aboa being made use of in a very curious wayis worth repeating. A traveller coming fromabroad brougiit a quantity of cigars withhim, in a large box. Not wanting to payduty for these cigars, he had a false topmade to his box and covered it with anold blanket, on the top of which he placeda couple of good-sized boas ! On arrivingat the Customs House, the keys were de-manded and given up, with a warning thatthe box contained very dangerous officials, being incredulous, opened the. OBNAJII!^TED lid of the box in an off-hand, careless the noise of the keys and seeingdaylight admitted, the snakes woke up andbegan to hiss, brandishing their forky was too much for the officers, who,Hke many people, no doubt believed thetongue was a venomous sting, for downwent the lid of the box in an instant, andthe box, snakes, cigars and all were allowedto pass without farther and more minuteexamination. These brilHantly-coloured horned toads areremarkable for their fierce and carnivoroushabits, which, combined with the enormous proportions of their mouths, gives them aOrnamented niost formidable or They are very pugnacious, andHorned Toad ^ , > 7 ,! i of South nercely ily at anyone attack-America, ij-^g them, taking a firm hold,wliich they maintain with the tenacity of abull-dog, accompanied by a cry very like thebarking of that animal, whilst at othe
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