THE OTHER BEASTS 



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have very large eyes and ears, with long tails, and are 

 clothed in soft woolly fur. Habitually they live in trees, 

 b.ut when they descend to the ground they progress by 

 long jumps as kangaroos do, their power to effect these 



FIG. 88. 



THE SLENDER LORIS. 



depends on the fact that two of their ankle bones are 

 even more elongated than in the small Madagascar 

 lemuroids last noted. 



A most singular lemuroid is the slender loris a crea- 

 ture with no trace of a tail, and limbs which have much 

 the proportions of our own as to length, though they 



