. Adventure--travel--exploration. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology. CHAPTER XXXVI Toothless Ant-Eaters NOW let us look at a most curious group of animals, which are called Edentates,—-i. e., "toothless,"—from the fact that they possess no front teeth. The Long-tailed Manis.—One of these mail-covered animals is the long-tailed manis, of Africa, which is covered with a number of sharply-pointed horny plates, which almost exactly resemble the scale armor of olden times. These plates overlap one another just like the slates upon the roof of a house, and lie with their points '. ??
. Adventure--travel--exploration. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology. CHAPTER XXXVI Toothless Ant-Eaters NOW let us look at a most curious group of animals, which are called Edentates,—-i. e., "toothless,"—from the fact that they possess no front teeth. The Long-tailed Manis.—One of these mail-covered animals is the long-tailed manis, of Africa, which is covered with a number of sharply-pointed horny plates, which almost exactly resemble the scale armor of olden times. These plates overlap one another just like the slates upon the roof of a house, and lie with their points '. ??.?,. LONG-TAILED MANIS directed towards the tail, each projecting for some little distance over those beneath it. Unlike the scale armor, they can be used as weapons of offense as well as defense, for, if menaced by a powerful foe, the manis rolls himself into a ball, just like the hedgehog, so that the sharp and keen-edged plates project from the body, and severely wound any animal which is foolish enough to meddle with them. Indeed, when thus rolled up, the manis is safe from the attacks (262). 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 Unger, Frederic William, 1875- [from old catalog]. [Philadelphia, The John C. Winston co. ]
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