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Fig. 599. Functional adaptations 

 in the mammalian skeleton. (Opposite 

 page, top) Flying fox, one of the 

 Chiroptera. (Second from top) Ter- 

 restrial carnivore: wolf. (Second from 

 bottom) Semiaquatic pinniped carni- 

 vore: seal. (Bottom) Aquatic: mana- 

 tee, a sirenian. (Left) Arboreal: 

 gibbon, a primate. (Courtesy, De 

 Blainville: " Osteographie Comparee 

 du Squelette," Paris, Arthus Ber- 

 trand. ) 



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Fig. 600. (Left) Bush baby, a lefnur, Galayo. (Center) Pentailed tree shrew. 

 (Right) Opossum, a marsupial. (Left and Right, courtesy, American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York: center, courtesy, Flower and Lydekker: "Introduc- 

 tion to the Study of Mammals," London, A. & C. Black, Ltd.) 



