File:Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities (1901) (14753041334).jpg

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
Subjects:
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
s with it when it ison the land ; and if an anaconda has once been in the neighbor-hood of a plantation or barnyard in which it has seized a duckor a hen, it generally remains near by until it has devouredall the rest of the flock. For this purpose it lies among thereeds of a neighboring swamp or in some crevice or ditch. InGuiana the planters kill the anaconda with buckshot, which,by shattering its backbone, paralyzes the animal and makes ithelpless. Whenever the Indians can get near enough to it theyshoot it with arrows. The anaconda is so tenacious of life thatits body continues to move long after the head has been sev-ered from it, the skin drawn off, and the entrails taken out.The Indians and Bushnegros eat its flesh, which is very whiteand succulent They use its fat as a healing ointment, andprepare a tough leather out of its skin, which the whites usefor horse-blankets, boots, and bags. The natives also eat thesoft-shelled eggs of the anaconda, considering them a greatdelicacy.
Text Appearing After Image:
The Anaconda fishing. SEA-ELEPHANTS. 61 Sea-elephants. THE sea-elephant, or Cystophora elephantina as his scien-tific name runs, is one of the rarest and most interestingamong the seals. Formerly it inhabited the coasts ofPatagonia, California, and Tasmania in great herds. To-day,because of the thoughtless and pitiless persecution to which ithas been subjected by the seal hunters, it is to be found indecreasingly small numbers only on the almost inaccessiblecliffs of the Arctic Ocean. The sea-elephant is larger than anyof the rest of its kind. Full-grown males have been knownto reach a length of more than twenty-five feet and a weightof ten thousand pounds. The wide, globular head of the maleends in a trunk snout, at the end of which are the nostrils.When the animal is at rest the snout hangs over the mouth,but when it is excited the formation becomes inflated and lookssomewhat like a sausage. The eyes are round and full, andare surrounded by two rows of hairy feelers, which also grow

Note About Images