Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c

In Tartary they have an animal called _czigithai_, which possibly is of the same species as the zebra, as the principal difference between them is in the colour; a difference wh...

The _urson_ might be called the _bristly beaver_, he being of the same country, the same size, and the same form of body. He has, like the beaver, two long, strong, and sharp in...

6. _The bison of America might come originally from the bison of Europe._ We have already laid down the foundation of this opinion in our discourse on the animals of the two con...

I cannot conclude this article better than by inserting the observations which the Marquis de Montmirail communicated to me concerning the unau, which had been above three years...

Although we have only the head of this animal in the royal cabinet, it is too remarkable to be passed over in silence. All naturalists have looked upon it as a kind of hog, thou...

The ancients have affirmed that these animals are capable of generating at the age of three years: this appears to me rather doubtful, for at that age they have not attained hal...

The herds of rein-deer require a great deal of care; they are subject to elope, and voluntarily strive to regain their natural liberty: they must be closely attended, and narrow...

In the year 1774, a ram was exhibited at the fair of St. Germain, as a ram of the Cape of Good Hope; but we found it had been purchased at Tunis, and considered it to be of the...

Peru, according to Gregoire de Bolivar, is the native country of the lamas: they have indeed been conducted into other provinces, as New Spain, &c. but this is rather from curio...

These little animals can only live in excessive hot climates; they are so exceedingly delicate that it is with the greatest difficulty they are transported into Europe alive, wh...

M. Daubenton, who has more minutely inspected the nature of bezoar stones than any other person, thinks they are composed of something similar to that which fastens itself to th...

From the fact which we formerly stated, namely, that the hamster which we kept confined in a cage, and in a room where water was frozen, was not reduced to a torpid state, we ca...

M. De Querhoent says, that altho' the bisons invariably differ from the common oxen by the hunch on their backs, and their hair being longer, yet they breed in the Isle of Franc...

The ninth antelope is an animal which, according to M. Adanson, is called _nangueur_, or _nanguer_ (_fig. 155._) at Senegal. It is three feet and a half long, and two feet and a...

M. Peroud, surveyor of the chrystal mines in the Alps, brought over a living chamois, and gave the following excellent information on the natural habits and manners of this anim...

I have been informed by Mr. Bruce that in his travels through Africa he frequently saw hippopotami in Lake Tzana, in Upper Abyssinia, near the sources of the Nile; that in this...

_The Camel and the Dromedary_ 1 _The Buffalo, the Bonasus, the Aurochs, the Bison, &c._ 18 _The Zebu_ 58 _The Muflon and other Sheep_ 59 _The Axis_ 75 _The Tapir_ 83 _The Zebra_...

Let us, nevertheless, take a view of the reasons against it. The wild and chamois goats both subsist in a state of nature, and both are constantly distinct. The chamois sometime...

This animal is called by some travellers the _genet of Madagascar_, because it resembles the genet in colour, and some other affinities; but it is in general much smaller, and h...