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Title: The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 Ralph, W. L., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Animals
Publisher: London : W.S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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lso be attended to. Several genera, like those of the two preceding families, in walking, place the whole sole of thefoot on the ground, a circumstance (generally) indicated by the absence of hair on all that part.f Others, and by far the greater number, rest on only the ends of the toes, elevating the tarse.Their gait is more rapid, and to this primary difference are added many others of habit, andeven of internal conformation. In both, the clavicle is a mere bony rudiment suspended inthe muscles. The PlantigradaConstitute this first tribe, which walk on the whole sole of the foot, a circumstance which givesthem greater facility of standing upright upon their hind-feet. They partake of the slowness • Surer tristrititiisoi some of the old authors is a true nidelphis. 1 with hair: the same is observable in some Martens , while others of Y,p, this ^enus have the sole altogether naked.—Kd. t In the Tolar Bear, and Panda, the sole is completely covered 1 BEAE.S -^^ ^^t?f \ - - T;^ .ft
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Arcnc Be CARNARIA 83 and nocturnal life of the Insectivora, and, like them, have no coccum : most of those whichinhabit cold countries pass the winter in a state of lethargy. All have five toes to each foot. The Bears (Ursus, Lin.)— Possess three large molars on each side of both jaws*, altogether tuberculous, and of which the poste-rior above are the most extended. These are preceded ly a tooth a little more trenchant, which is thecarnivorous tooth of this genusf, and by a variable number of very small false molars, which sometimesfall at an early age. This system of dentition, almost frugivorous, explains why, notwithstanding theirgreat strength, the animals of this genus devour flesh only from necessity. They are large stout-bodied animals, with thick limbs, and tail extremely short: the cartilage of theirnose is elongated and moveable. They excavate dens and construct huts (?), where they pass thewinter in a state of sonniolency more or less profouml, and without taking food. It

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