TEETH OF TIGERS AND OF RATS 



mammals. You see in the Clouded Tiger 

 (Fig. 53) that the teeth are few in number, and 

 are sharp, for cutting or tearing flesh, whilst the 

 canine teeth are very large. 



In Fig. 54 the skull of a great rat, as big as a 

 beaver or fair-sized dog, is photographed. The 



Fig. 53. — Skull of the Clouded Tiger, to show the large canine 

 teeth and the few but pointed and cut ting, molars, two 

 above and three below. 



front teeth (only one on each side above and 

 below) are chisel-like, and very large, to enable 

 the rat to gnaw wood. 



In reptiles you no longer get complex cheek 

 teeth. All the teeth are peg-hke. They have 



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