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Title: A manual of zoology
Identifier: cu31924001021835 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hertwig, Richard, 1850-1937; Kingsley, J. S. (John Sterling), 1854-1929
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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630 CHORD AT A. species, forming an unj>aired blind sac (vl), which may even open into the nrogenital sinus as a third vagina. This partial fusion of the vaginse of the marsupials is comijleted in the placental mam- mals, the single vagina and the sinus forming a single canal (tig. 054). Here the uterine portions may remain distinct (uterus A
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Fig. 651.—^, uterus duplex: B, uterus bicornis; C, uterus simplex. (From Gegen- Ijaur.) ot/, oviduct; l(, uterus; r, vagina. duplex of rodents, A), or they may fuse partially (uterus bicornis of insectivores, whales, ungulates, and carnivores, B), or they may be completely fused (uterus simplex of apes and man, C). Thus there are three different types of the female genitalia, in which the vagina is not differentiated (Ornithodelphia), or is double (Marsupialia), or is single and unpaired (Monodelphia). To these correspond three types of development. The Ornitho- delphia are ovijjarous, the others viviparous, but are distinguished by the duration of pregnancy. The eggs of the viviparous forms are so small (about .01 inch) that they have a total, nearly equal segmentation. Such eggs require nourishment from the mother in order to produce an animal with the complicated structure of a mammal. Since in the Dideljjhia the uterine nourishment is usitally very incomplete, the period of pregnancy is very short, in comparison with the Monodelphia, in which a placenta, a com- plicated apparatus for the nourishment of the young, appears; hence the marsupials, with their small imperfectl)' formed young, are often called Aplacentalia; the Monodelj^hia, Placentalia. All mammals caro for the j'ouiig, this being chiefly or wholly done by the mother, who not only supplies them with milk but protects them in warm if rude nests. Most mammals are monogamous, some polj'gauious, while in others there is no permanent association of the sexes. The body temperature is constant and ranges from 36° to 41° C. (98° to 106° F.); in Echidna it is only 26° to 34° U. (79° to 83° F.). In most, continual feeding is necessary for existence; from this rule there are a few exceptions, like the bears, marmots, badgers, etc., which hibernate during the winter^ taking Tio food. At this time there is a fall in the temperature due to the diminished metabolism.

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