. Guide leaflet. Information in regard to Classification, Scientific Names,and related points may be found in A First Chapter inNatural History. MARSUPIALIA, Pouched Mammals, Opossums, Kangaroos and related animals. The young are born at an early stage and during thefirst part of their life carried in a pouch. The greater numberare found only in Australia. They vary greatly in form andhabits and we have marsupials that are flesh eaters, .masseaters and rodents; they jump, climb, run. and a few saillike <nir flying squirrel. The Marsupials are given a sub class,Metatheria, intermediate mamma
. Guide leaflet. Information in regard to Classification, Scientific Names,and related points may be found in A First Chapter inNatural History. MARSUPIALIA, Pouched Mammals, Opossums, Kangaroos and related animals. The young are born at an early stage and during thefirst part of their life carried in a pouch. The greater numberare found only in Australia. They vary greatly in form andhabits and we have marsupials that are flesh eaters, .masseaters and rodents; they jump, climb, run. and a few saillike <nir flying squirrel. The Marsupials are given a sub class,Metatheria, intermediate mammals, as ranking between theegg-laying mammals and those in which the young are well-developed when born. The vast majority of mammals, included in the Orders In-sectivora to Primates form a large assemblage known asEutheria, the right or perfect mammals; these sub-classes arerepresented on the cover as follows, the Prototheria by theEchidna, the Metatheria by the Kangaroo, the Eutheria bythe Baboon, Seals and HEDGEHOG Erinact us europa usAn insectivore that suggests a little Porcupine INSECTIVORA, Insect Eaters; animals of small size mostof them nocturnal in habits and many, like our commonmole, adapted for an underground life; none are found inSouth America or Australia. Like the marsupials some of them resemble other,unrelated annuals in form or habits: thus the tree shrewsof Asia, live and look like squirrels, the jumping shrewsof Africa suggest kangaroo rats the hedgehogs, like theporcupines, have spines, colugo, or flying lemur, has amembrane between its legs and its tail, and sails like a fly-ing squirrel. See Animals that Look Alike, and Modifications forLocomotion CHIROPTERA, Bats; the only mammals that really fly, theirimmensely long fingers, supporting like the ribs of an um-brella, a membrane that forms a wing. Their distribu-tion depends mainly on temperature; when the cold putsan end to the insects on which they feed, the bats hiber-nate, go into winter quarte
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