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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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grasp upon a bough, and while it is preparing for asecond spring the eagle hawk pounces upon his prey and bearsit down upon the bough. With half-upraised wings and neckfeathers bristling, the bird of prey kills his victim with a mightyblow of his beak and makes off with the booty. The chameckis a weak and harmless creature that depends only upon itsswiftness for its safety. His assailant, on the other hand, is apowerful marauder, with strong claws, a powerful beak, andvery swift in flight. The chameck uses his tail also as an organof feeling. If his favorite food is placed behind the animal, itfinds it by feeling with its tail; he also draws eggs and youngbirds out of the hollows of trees with the same limb. It is nottrue, however, that these animals are in the habit of forminga living bridge by swinging from a tree on the banks of a riverto another on the opposite side. The natives prize the flesh ofthe chameck above that of all other game, and use its skin for avariety of purposes.
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Chameck surprised by an Eagle Hawk. THE YAK. 125 The Yak. THE most remarkable among the widely scattered rumi-nants is the ydi)^ (BOSg7i(n?iiejis\ an animal notable, in thefirst place, because of its peculiarly dignified appearance,and in the second place because it lives among the waste plainsof Central Asia, high up in the snow belt, where the vegetationis so sparse that it is a wonder how so large an animal can findenough pasture to live upon. The yak is a powerful animal overeight feet in length, standing nearly five feet from the groundat the hump, and weighing as much as a heavy horse. Its bodyis thick-set, with a large and broad head provided with horns abouttwo feet long, beneath which the eyes peep forth gentle andalmost bashful. Behind its thick, bull neck rise the withers likea hump. The body is small across the shoulders and bulky inthe middle, and the tail ends in a tuft of hair that almost touchesthe ground. The most pecuUar and characteristic feature of thebeast is its

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