Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History

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Identifier: animallifeworldo119021903lond (find matches)
Title: Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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A YOUNG MALE EOCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT. The MountainGoat is rathera stupid beast,and where notoften disturbedis easilyapproached,especially fromabove. Hisenemies, asidefrom man, arefew. In summer,in the southernpart ofhis range,he is said to behunted by boththe grizzly bearand the moun-tain lion, andin the northernpart by the bigbrown bears ofAlaska; but itis not likely thatsuch heavy andclumsy animalsas bears cancatch such nat-ural-born rockclimbers asgoats, unlesssuddenly sur-prised or cor-nered in someplace fromwhich there is nopossible escape.
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The Deaths Head Hawi-: Mchh. Catkki-ij.i.ak amj Plia. ta! lUnUr-cohiir dr^iitia^^ ry r>,?Ji^.>- r. .:. Uuh)U F.I.S., /■S.,f. WILD BEASTS AND THEIR WAYS. The first of a series of articles on popular Zoology. By Sir Haeey Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.Sc. I. THE GEE AT APES. IT has occniTed to me that there are some points connected with the habits andpeculiarities of African wild beasts that are not generaUy known or understood, andmight therefore be of interest to the readers of this Magazine. The anthropoid or man-like apes are represented m Tropical Africa at the presentday by two genera, Gorilla and Antkropopithecus. The first named contains onespecies, the well-knowngorUla; and the secondcomprehends the two orthree different kinds ofchimpanzees. Perhaps onthe whole the gorilla isslightly nearer to thehuman family than is thechimpanzee. Its feet ap-proximate more to theshape, structure, andrelative length of thehuman foot; its cranialcapacity is slightly greaterthan ra t

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