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PERIPATUS 



A widely distributed old-fashioned type of animal, somewhat 

 like a permanent caterpillar. It has affinities both with worms 

 and with insects. It has a velvety skin, minute diamond-like 

 eya>, and short stump-like Jegs. A defenceless, weaponless 

 animal, it comes out at night, and is said to capture small in- 

 sects by squirting jets of slime from its mouth. 



Photo: H'. S. Rerridge, F.Z.S. 



ROCK KANGAROO CARRYING ITS YOIM . IN A POUCH 



The young are born so helpless that they cannot even suck. 

 The mother places them in the external pouch, and fitting their 

 mouths on the teats injects the milk. After a time the young 

 ones go out and in as they please. 



