Quadrupeds What They Are And Where Found A Book Of Zoology For

The great family of the Monkeys, or the "Monkey tribe," as it is usually called, is divided by naturalists into two large groups--the "Monkeys of the Old World," or those that i...

The Monkeys of America differ in many respects from those of the Old World. In general they are smaller--none of the species being quite so large as the baboons. Their bodies an...

In the days of Linnaeus--that is, a century and a half ago--it was supposed there was only one kind of Bear in existence--the common Brown bear of Europe. It is true that Linnae...

The Badger is a silent, solitary, carnivorous creature, having his representative, in some form or other, in almost every part of the world; though nowhere either numerous in sp...

Fortunate it is that the quadrupeds composing this group are all animals of small dimensions. Were they equal in size to lions and tigers, the human race would be in danger of t...

Perhaps of all other animals the dog has been the earliest and most constant companion of man. His swiftness and strength, but more especially his highly-developed power of smel...

By _Wild Dogs_, we mean not only several sorts of true dogs, that in different parts of the world are found living in a wild state; but also Wolves, Foxes, Jackals, Hyenas, and...

The Lion is the _king of cats_; though there are some who think that the Tiger has a better claim to the _throne_. In point of size and strength, there is not much difference be...

In this group we include not only Rats, but a great many other small rodents, or gnawers, such as Mice, Marmots, Lemmings, Hamsters, Mole-Rats, Jerboas, and Jumping Mice. The Sh...

Of true Beavers there is only one species--unless the beaver of the Old World be different from the well-known animal of the American continent. This is a question which has bee...

These pretty little animals are widely distributed over the earth; though to this remark Australia seems to form an exception, since no species has yet been discovered there. Ho...

The Hare, and its very near congener, the Rabbit, are animals too well-known to need description; but it is necessary to say that, besides the species of both, peculiar to Great...

The Elephant is by far the largest of land animals, and for this reason one of the most interesting to the student of zoology; but even without this superiority, he possesses qu...

Though these three kinds of creatures belong to different genera, there is a certain family likeness among them that entitles them to be classed together; and since there are no...

Strictly speaking, the Giraffes cannot be considered as belonging to the same family with the Camels, nor yet the Camels be classed with the Llamas; but there is a very great re...

If not one of the most agreeable, the Hog--or Pig, as it is oftener called--is one of the most useful of the domesticated animals. Indeed, it would be difficult to say how culin...

The Horse--_par excellence_ the noblest of animals--is represented by only a limited number of species; but, like other creatures domesticated by man, he is found of many differ...

Our common domestic cattle furnish the type on which this family is founded; and it is well-known that of this type there are many varieties in different countries. Even in our...

The Sheep is one of the animals which man has subjected to his use; and one, too, of primary importance in the domestic economy of almost every civilised nation. Like the horse,...

My young readers will be surprised to hear that nothing is more difficult than to tell a _Goat_ from a _Sheep_. Yet such is in reality the fact. Of course the common goat is eas...

The Antelope tribe is so closely related to that of the Deer, that it is often difficult to distinguish one from the other. Indeed, certain species of antelopes are more like to...

Of these graceful quadrupeds there are nearly fifty species known to the scientific naturalist. These are geographically distributed throughout the continents of Europe, Asia, a...

In the year 1711 was brought to France, from the Island of New Guinea, an animal of an unknown species, and one that was singular in many respects; but especially so, from the f...

This is, perhaps, the most interesting of the groups--interesting on account of the singular animals which compose it, every one of which may be termed an odd creature. In a str...