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gated digits of the forelimbs and between those and the hind limbs 

 and tail. They do not use their wings as gliding planes as do other 

 flying mammals but fly with them in somewhat the same manner as 

 do birds, though the flight of the bat is weaker and less direct. Bats 

 are largely insectivorous and nocturnal in habits and are very widely 

 distributed. 



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Fig. 282. — An Australian marsupial, the red kangaroo. Macropvs rnfus (Desmarost). 

 (Drawn from Lydekkcr, " Wild Life of the World," vol. II.) Attains a total length of 9 feet. 



Carnivora (kar niv' o ra; L., carnivorus, flesh-eating) are flesh-eating 

 mammals characterized generally by their large size and predatory 

 habits and by the fact that their incisor teeth are small while the canines 

 are highly developed and the molars are of a culling type. This order 

 is divided into two great suborders. The first, Fissipedia (fis i pe' di a; 

 L., fissiis, cleft, and pedis, foot), is made up of the terrestrial carnivores, 

 whose feet are divided into toes armed with well-developed, curved 

 claws (Fig. 283), and includes the cats, hyenas, dogs, wolves, foxes, 

 raccoons, badgers, weasels, minks, skunks, otters, and bears. A large 



