Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
In a land which depends to a very large extent on agricultural and pastoral pursuits and industries some knowledge of the animal and vegetable life of the country should be taught in every school, and the love of Nature in all her varied aspects should be inculcated in every c...
Everybody in New Zealand knows something about rabbits; a great many know a good deal about their habits, their value for fur and for gastronomic purposes, and their destructive...
6. CHAPTER V.The fallow deer has palmated antlers--that is, they end in a broad expansion, which is divided into several points, and has been compared to a hand with its fingers. These antle...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Five species of carnivorous animals (exclusive of menagerie specimens) have been introduced into New Zealand. Cats and dogs are domestic animals of which numerous individuals ha...
8. CHAPTER VII.How little any of us in New Zealand know about the monsters of the deep which are to be met with in the seas round our coasts! I seldom meet with any one who knows anything abou...
7. CHAPTER VI.The animals which form the group called the Bovidae (from the Latin _bos_, an ox), including cattle, sheep, goats, and their allies, differ in several respects from Cervidae, or...
13. CHAPTER XII.The gnawing-animals, which constitute the order Rodentia, form the most sharply defined group of the Mammalia, the distinguishing characters and name being derived from their te...
16. CHAPTER XV.Hares, like rabbits, are animals destitute of any special means of defence against their enemies except the rapidity of their movements, and they are exceedingly shy and timid....
2. CHAPTER I.In a land which depends to a very large extent on agricultural and pastoral pursuits and industries some knowledge of the animal and vegetable life of the country should be taug...
10. CHAPTER IX.The Mustelidae, or weasel family, is the most heterogeneous assemblage of all the carnivorous group. Though differing much among themselves, they possess certain important chara...
11. CHAPTER X.The wild life of New Zealand includes members of the marine Carnivora and of the Cetacea; but these animals are known only to the relatively few persons who “go down to the sea...
14. CHAPTER XIII.It is probable that the mouse was introduced into New Zealand early in last century, yet the first notice of the appearance of this familiar little animal in the North Island is...
5. CHAPTER IV.Exclusive of horses and pigs, all the other ungulates which have been introduced into New Zealand and have become established here belong to the group of ruminants, or ruminatin...
4. CHAPTER III.Most people think they know all about pigs, and hardly associate them with wild life in New Zealand. They usually consider them the dirtiest creatures on earth, and yet, with re...
3. CHAPTER II.Numerous attempts have been made to introduce various kinds of marsupials into New Zealand, and several kinds of kangaroos, wallabies, and opossums have been liberated in this c...
12. CHAPTER XI.How many people--especially young people--in New Zealand have seen native bats? Two species occur in the country, and one of these at one time was fairly common. Now they are ve...
1. PART I.--MAMMALIA.