KOOLA. 



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make, and lives on grass; and that the second 

 passes the greatest portion of her time on trees, or 

 in such burrows as she excavates, and that she is 

 remarkably careful of her young. This quality is 

 obvious in most animals, in the female especially, 

 who will rather die than suffer her offspring to be 

 injured ; yet the exhibition of it varies in different 

 species, according to their construction and mode of 



THE KOOLA. 



life. The Koola places her little one upon her 

 back, and instructs it to hold fast; the Monkey 

 carries her bantling in her arms ; the Colugo care- 

 fully enfolds it in the membrane which is fixed like 

 a mantle to her neck and arms ; graminivorous ani- 

 mals place their young on the soft grass, and watch 

 beside them ; the carnivora carefully conceal theirs 

 in caverns, or hollow trees ; the Field-mouse con- 



