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Identifier: scienceguide7692amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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ace, by chmbing trees, or by swimming. The muzzles of most ofthem are sharply pointed, a shape adapted to seeking out insects in thesmall cracks and holes in which they are apt to conceal themselves.Burrowing is best developed among the Talpidae or moles, and theChrysochloridae or golden moles. These animals have modified the feet 10 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLET into powerful digging members. An opposite extreme of locomotion isattained by the Alacroscelididse or jumping shrews which bound along inkangaroo fashion on their elongated rear legs. The Potomogalidae orAfrican water shrews have webbed feet and a powerful sculling tail.The tree shrews or Tupaidae are remarkably like tree squirrels in habitsand in appearance. They are of unusual interest to us in that they areprobably descendants of the same stock from which the Primates (lemurs,monkeys, apes and men) originated. The hedgehogs or Erinaceidae arespiny creatures of the old world, and externally resemble some members NSECTIVORA
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of a Madagascar family of insectivores, the Tenrecidse. The shrews orSoricidse, whose soft velvety pelage is in extreme contrast to the spinyarmour of the hedgehogs, contain among them the smallest mammals ofthe world. One other famil)^, the Solenodontidae is confined to a singlegenus of an ancient stock surviving because of its isolation from modernenemies on the two islands of Cuba and Haiti. BIOLOGY OF MAMMALSDERMOPTERA 11

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no.76-92
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  • bookid:scienceguide7692amer
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:IMLS___LSTA___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:19
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
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