LABORATORY STUDIES UPON TYPIC ANIMALS^ 

 I. GENERAL PRELIMINARY STUDY 



1. General characteristics of this animal as to — 



(1) Head, 



(2) Body, 



(3) Appendages, 



(4) Mouth, 



(5) Ears, 



(6) Eyes, or as many of these as you can identify and 



describe briefly. 



2. Symmetry. Is this animal asymmetric, radial, or bi- 

 lateral? 



3. Habitat. Is this animal aerial, aquatic, terrestrial, or 

 subterranean? 



4. Food. 



(1) Is this animal carnivorous, herbivorous, or omnivorous? 



(2) How does it obtain its food? 



(3) Is there anything about the structure of this animal 



to suggest how it gets its food? To suggest the 

 character of its food? 



5. Locomotion. 



(1) How many appendages or limbs has this animal? 



(2) Is it fixed or free? What effect does this have upon 



its development and movements? 



(3) Is its locomotion affected by body movement, by limb 



movement, or by l^oth? 



(4) Upon what part of the body, limb, or foot does it 



move from place to place? 



(5) What is its locomotion called? 



(6) Rate of locomotion as compared with that of man? 



6. Self defense. 



(1) Name its direct means of defense. 



(2) Name its indirect means. 



1 See Plan for using these studies, p. 5. 

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