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Identifier: animalsinactions00broo (find matches)
Title: Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter), 1846-1902
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Suricate attacking a Great Shrew Mouse. SURICATE AND GREAT SHREW MOUSE. 225 hole at the sHghtest warning of danger. It has young ones atleast nine times a year, and would multiply inconceivably if itwere not exposed to violence from several birds and beasts ofprey, among which the little-known suricate (scientifically knownas Suricata tetradactyla)\& one of the most active. The suricate,common to the whole of South Africa, is about twenty incheslong, that is to say, about the size of a half-grown house cat,which animal, indeed, it resembles somewhat. The suricatehas, however, a pointed head, and five-toed feet armed withsharp claws. It is, one might say, a cross between a martenand a cat. The suricate is primarily a dweller of the desert,active, swift, and ever on the watch for prey. It eats snakes,mice, rats, and other small animals. It has, however, a par-ticularly sharp appetite for the great shrew mouse. It creepsand pounces upon this animal everywhere, and in this mannereffec

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