HEDGEHOG KIND. 



use, except to muzzle calves, to keep them from 

 sucking. 



THE TANREC AND TENDRAC. 



THE Tanrec and Tendrac are two little ani- 

 mals described by M. Buffon, of the hedgehog 

 kind, but yet sufficiently different from it. to con- 

 stitute a different species. Like the hedgehog, 

 they are covered with prickles, though mixed in 

 a greater proportion with hair ; but, unlike that 

 animal, they do not defend themselves by rolling 

 up in a ball. Their wanting this last property is 

 alone sufficient to distinguish them from an ani- 

 mal in which it makes the most striking peculi- 

 arity ; as also, that in the East Indies, where only 

 they are found, the hedgehog exists separately 

 also a manifest proof that this animal is not a 

 variety caused by the climate. 



The Tanrec is much less than the hedgehog,* 

 being about the size of a mole, and covered with 

 prickles, like that animal, except that they are 

 shorter and smaller. The Tendrac is still less than 

 the former, and is defended only with prickles 

 upon the head, the neck, and the shoulders, the 

 rest being covered with a coarse hair, resem- 

 bling a hog's bristles. These little animals, whose 

 legs are very short, move but slowly. They grunt 

 like a hog; and wallow, like it, in the mire. 

 They love to be near water, and spend more of 



* Buffon, vol. xxv. p. 254. 

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