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interval above spoken of, I am not prepared to say ; 

 but I thought I observed, when the rhinoceros 

 was walking slowly, in which animal the body is 

 rather long in comparison of the legs, that this 

 interval was also longer than in the horse, as it is 

 shorter in the two animals just mentioned. 



Dogs, cats, and pigs lie down, in general, to 

 suckle their young. In one instance, however, I 

 saw a sow suckling a whole litter of pigs at once 

 in the standing position. The sheep and cow, and 

 probably all ruminants, as well as the mare, stand 

 for that purpose. Mr. Yarrell informs me, that 

 the mode of suckling in the giraffe, as observed 

 by him in the case of the two young born in the 

 Zoological Gardens, London, is the same also, 

 and precisely similar to that of the mare. 



White has observed that " the brute creation 

 recognize each other more from the smell than the 

 sight ; and, in matters of identity and diversity, ap- 

 peal much more to their noses than to their eyes." 

 In confirmation of this, he mentions the well- 

 known circumstance of ewes and lambs not being 

 able readily to distinguish one another after they 

 have been shorn; and the confusion that there is, 

 in like manner, in the flock after sheep have 

 been washed.* 



* See his Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in various 

 branches of Natural History ; by Aikin, p. 92. 



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