. The popular natural history . Zoology. 4iS TERRAPINS. It is one of the vegetable feeders, eating various plants, and being very fond of lettuce leaves, which it crops in a very curious manner, biting them off sharply when fresh and crisp, but dragging them asunder when stringy, by putting the fore-feet upon them, and pulling with the jaws. This Tortoise will drink milk, and does so by opening its mouth, scooping up the milk in its lower jaw as if with a spoon, and then raising its head to let the liquid run down its throat. One of these animals, which I kept for some time, displayed a remark
. The popular natural history . Zoology. 4iS TERRAPINS. It is one of the vegetable feeders, eating various plants, and being very fond of lettuce leaves, which it crops in a very curious manner, biting them off sharply when fresh and crisp, but dragging them asunder when stringy, by putting the fore-feet upon them, and pulling with the jaws. This Tortoise will drink milk, and does so by opening its mouth, scooping up the milk in its lower jaw as if with a spoon, and then raising its head to let the liquid run down its throat. One of these animals, which I kept for some time, displayed a remarkable capacity for climbing, and was very fond of mounting upon various articles of furniture, stools being its favourite resort. It revelled in warmth, and could not be kept away from the hearthrug, especially delighting to chmb upon a footstool that generally lay beside the fender. This Tortoise had a curious kind of voice, not unlike the mewing of a little kitten. The Common Tortoise is known to live to a great COMMON LAND TORTOI^^E.—[Tesiudo Grctca.) Another specimen, a very large one, has been in my possession for several years. At the end of autumn it burrows under a heap of leaf-mould, and waits there until the warm days of spring. It feeds mostly on f rass, and eats its way in a Une, leaving a groove of cut srrass to mark its track. With the exception of strawberry eating, it does no harm in the garden. It has a most inexplicable objection to rain, of which not one drop can penetrate its shell; and whenever a shower comes, it makes its way to an earth-bank, forces itself partly into the loose soil, and remains there with retracted head and limbs until the rain has ceased. We now come to a group of Tortoises called Terrapins. These creatures are inhabitants of the water, and are mostly found in rivers. They are carnivorous in their diet, and take their food while in the water. They may be known by their flattened heads, covered with skin, sometimes. Please note th
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