Buffon's Natural History. Volume 09 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c

This animal may either be called the last of beasts or the first of fishes, for, in fact, it cannot positively be pronounced either the one or the other. The manati (_fig. 194._...

[Footnote AE: The hogs, says Kolbe, which have been brought from Java to the Cape of Good Hope, have very short legs, are black, and without bristles; their belly which is very...

We are indebted for the knowledge of this animal (_fig. 219._) to M. de la Condamine, and shall therefore give his account of it in his Voyage up the river Amazon. "The monkey,...

"The white monkeys, says Forbin, are sometimes as big as the largest bull-dogs, and are more dangerous than the black. They have a strong desire for women, and often, after havi...

The mona has pouches on each side of his jaws, and callosities on his posteriors. His tail is about two feet long, which is longer by six inches than both his body and head. The...

The pithecos, the magot, and the baboon, were known to the ancients: these animals are found in Asia Minor, Arabia, Upper Egypt and in all the northern parts of Africa. This pas...

The first of these animals came to M. Aubry under the name of _pekan_, the _Devil's child_, or the _wild cat_ of Virginia. I perceived it was not the real pekan, but the same an...

The species of the ox, of all domestic animals, seems to be that on which its food acts with the greatest influence. It attains a prodigious size in those countries where the pa...

What is true with regard to the arts is the same as to sciences, only that the latter is less confined, because the mind is the instrument, and which in the former is subordinat...

The animal which Marcgrave calls _exquima_ is very similar to the _coaita_, and, perhaps, is only a variety of that species. This author seems to have been deceived when he said...

The ape is, therefore, further removed from the human species in relative qualities, than most other animals: He likewise differs greatly by temperament. The human species can d...

By the _walrus_ we understand those animals commonly called _sea-cows_, or _sea-horses_. We know of two species of this animal, one found only in the northern seas, and the othe...

We are not certain whether these two names denote animals of different species; we only know that the jackal (_fig. 181._) is larger, more ferocious, and more difficult to be ta...

This animal, which is found in Brasil, is neither a rabbit nor rat, yet seems to partake of both. It is about a foot long by seven inches in circumference. It is of the same col...

Rogers had spoken of this animal nearly in the same manner as is done in Anson's Voyages. "The sea-lion (says he) is a very strange creature, and of a prodigious bulk; I have se...

Next to these apes, we meet with another race of animals, which we shall indicate by the generic name of the _baboon_; and to distinguish them clearly from every other animal of...

Internally this animal differs from man in the number of its ribs; having thirteen, whereas man has only twelve. The vertebræ of the neck are also shorter, the bones of the pelv...

_Page_ _The Loris_ 1 _The Javelin Bat_ 3 _The Serval_ 6 _The Ocelot_ 9 _The Margay_ 13 _The Jackal and the Adil_ 17 _The Isatis_ 25 _The Glutton_ 29 _The Stinkards_ 35 _The Peka...

These experiments, however simple, have never yet been tried with a view to explain the nature of generation. I regret that it has not been in my power to try them, as I am pers...