. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. SHORT-TAILED MONKEY. This strange looking Monkey has its home in the forests of the Upper Amazon, which are inundated through the greater part of the year, and from these trees it never de- scends to the ground. It does not show much activity in swinging or jumping, but runs very nimbly up and down the branches. It is of great interest to naturalists because of its having thirty-six teeth, instead of thirty-two, the number possessed by most of the Monkeys, a
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. SHORT-TAILED MONKEY. This strange looking Monkey has its home in the forests of the Upper Amazon, which are inundated through the greater part of the year, and from these trees it never de- scends to the ground. It does not show much activity in swinging or jumping, but runs very nimbly up and down the branches. It is of great interest to naturalists because of its having thirty-six teeth, instead of thirty-two, the number possessed by most of the Monkeys, as well as by Man. {Brachyurus calvus.) The small, round head has large, owl-like eyes; the muzzle projects forward but little and is broad and large ; the nostrils open in a downward direc- tion ; the ears are small. The hair of the creature is soft and fluffy, and the bushy tail exceeds the body in length. The nails of the fingers and toes are com- pressed from side to side and curved, suggesting somewhat the idea of claws. About the The Mirikina (Nvctipit/tcats trivetgatus) is Mirikina only fifteen inches long, but his tail Monkey, measures twenty inches. This animal is thickly clothed with gray or brown fur, while the tip of the tail is black. The forehead is decorated with three black, parallel stripes and a wide, yellowish stripe runs from the neck to the root of the tail. The Mirikina ranges over the eastern portion of the warmer parts of South America. Rengger asserts 'that in Paraguay he is found only on the right side of the river, as far as the twenty-fifth degree of southern latitude. " He spends his life in trees, commencing his hunt for food at night, and retiring early in the morning to a hole in a tree-trunk, where he sleeps through the ; The servants of this naturalist while gathering wood once found a couple of these little Monkeys asleep. The frightened animals tried to escape, but were so dazzled with the sunlight that they could not climb or ju
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