PECULIARITIES OF ANIMALS.
Tortoises and turtleß have no teeth. All animals that chew the cud have cloven feet. , , Both mandlblet of the parrot* be»k are movable, but most other birds are only able to move one. The horse has no eyebrows. The appearanoe of much white in the eye of a horse indicates a vicious nature. The stork is partial to kittens as an artiole of food, and finds them an easy and wholesome prey, and the oats reoiprooato by a love for young storks. The frog, owing to Its peouliar structure, oanuot breathe with the mouth opeD, and if it were forcibly kept open tho animal would die of suffooation. The deer ia furuJehcd with supplementary beathing places in addition to tha nostrils and this would appear to bo an estiaordinary provision of Nature, giving the beast of the chsaa & freer respiration. Fishes swallow thsir food hasii'y and without mastication, because they are obliged unceasingly to open and close tho jaws for the purpose of respiration, and cannot long ret&in food in the mouth whan quits shut.
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New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 16
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178PECULIARITIES OF ANIMALS. New Zealand Mail, 30 December 1892, Page 16
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