Curiosities Respecting Animals
Animal Generation (Places The crocodile)
places. The crocodile and sea-tortoise go ashore to lay their eggs in the sand; in these cases, Nature, as a provident nurse, takes care of…
Formation of Animals
Nor seems it necessary, or rational, that the first seed of every creature should formally include all those seeds that should be…
Suriosities Respecting Animals
tree, the tree a thousand other fruits, and ten thousand ken nels; the first animal several others; and as many of them. as Nature can…
Suriosities Respecting Animals: Birds
Birds build their nests in the most artificial manner, and line them as soft as possible, that the eggs or young may not be injured. Nor do…
Suriosities Respecting Animals: Lapland
Thus the elephant, the rhinoceros, and the various kinds of monkeys, are destined to live in the torrid regions, where the sun darts its…
Brown Bear
34 to the Lapland waters; not knowing that the all-bountiful Creator had plenteously provided insect food for them in that dreary…
Destruction of Animals
there is not an animal in existence, which has not an enemy to contend with.
Destruction of Animals: Egyptians
Storks and cranes free Egypt from frogs, which, after the inundation of the Nile, cover the whole country. Falcons clear Palestine from…
Destruction of Animals: Providence
It is sufficient for us to believe that Providence is wise in all its works, and that nothing is made in vain. When rapacious animals do us…
Animal Reproduction
and gradually lengthens. Soon after, we may observe rings at first very close together, but insensibly extending on all sides; a new…
Chap. XIII
CURIOSITIES RESPECTING ANIMALS.-(Continued.) The Beaver, and its Habitations-The Mole-The Frog-The Toad-The Rhinoceros-Crocodiles and…
The Beaver
the fabric, and many of these are dragged from some distance by land, and formed into stakes; the fixing of which is a work of extreme…
The Beaver. - the Mole
dually advance towards perfection. But we find that they never vary in the least from the rules of their forefathers, never deviate from…
The Frog. -the Toad
each eye of the fish, which were thin and greatly wasted, teased by carrying so disagreeable a load. The croaking of frogs is well known…
The Rhinoceros-The Crocodile
generally, however, quiet and inoffensive. Its food consists entirely of vegetables, the tender branches of trees, and succulent herbage…
The Alligator
do much mischief by tearing them to pieces. They are torpid during winter, in Carolina, and retire into their dens, which they form by…
Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus.-Marmot
likewise to serve the same purpose of informing them of the presence of sensible bodies, and hence they have been compared to the antennæ…
Chap. XIV
CURIOSITIES RESPECTING ANIMALS.-(Continued.) The Elephant-Fossil Elephant-The Chameleon-The Common Tortoise-Orang-Outang-The Unicorn-The…
The Elephant
and twenty years. The Indians are remarkably arkably fond of these animals, especially when they have been long in their service. I have…
The Mammoth
The following account is extracted from an abridgment of a paper by Dr. Tilesius, from the Journal of Science. "In the year 1805, when the…
The Mammoth.--The Chameleon
kinds produced in Siberia; and also mammoths' horns, in great numbers, appeared between the hollows of the rocks; they all were of…
The Common Tortoise
about seven inches. It abounds in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean, and particularly in Greece, where the inhabitants not only…
The Orang-Outang. the Unicorn
Such awkwardness or constraint; to prepare its bed with exactness, and compose itself to sleep in a proper manner. are the actions of one…
Mon Seal
These animals are found on the coasts of the polar regions, both to the north and south, often in extreme abundance, and are generally…
The Seal
difficulty, if taken young, be familiarized to their keepers and instructed in various gesticulations. They are supposed to attain great…
American Naturai History
the jaw the colour was black, with white spots equally pro- P portioned; the sides and back are yellow, with black spots, curiously…
Chap. XV
CURIOSITIES RESPECTING ANIMALS.-(Concouded., Remarkable Strength of Affection in Animals-Surprising Instances of their…
Remarkable Strength of Affection in Animals
Mr. White, in his Natural History, &c. of Selborne, speaking of the natural affection of brutes, says, "The more I reflect on it, the more…
Sociality in Animals
cious. All the hirundines of a village are up in arms at the sight of a hawk, whom they will persecute till he leaves that district. A very…
Affection in Animals
in another hour have made his own entrance-port. I then inquired of my landlady, (a sensible woman,) and heard what i have related…
Instances of Fasting
design all of them together, without speaking to each other, or without some medium of communication equivalent to language?
Sagacity of Animals
Lines written on the preceding most remarkable Sheep. Scarce thirty suns had brighten'd o'er her head, When to Arab's deck young Jack* was…
Sagacity in a Horse
At Chepstow, in Monmouthshire, there is a bridge, the construction of which is extremely curious, as the planks that form the floor rise…
Instances of Sagacity
end to warn those that approached of their danger. But it so happened, that one dreadful stormy night the lamps blew out, and the monitor…
Anecdotes of Dogs
senger, an unhappy creature is thus frequently snatched from impending destruction."