216 Animal Life 
their teeth—over ninety. Their fore feet are specially adapted for digging, and the animal, 
when it sees danger, can extemporise a hole and vanish in it with wonderful rapidity 
and, hke the common 
wood louse, will, if 
captured, roll itself into 
a ball, withdrawing its 
head and feet under its 
strong armour. 
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THE Common Striped 
Spotted Hyena was 
gine (Be aly 
Hyzna of Species that 
S. Africa. yas known 
to Linneus, and was 
named by him Canis 
Hyena. The recent 
species, however, num- 
ber four. This animal 
was known to the 
Ancients, who regarded 
it. with superstitious 
awe and invented many 
stories as to its habits 
(which are nocturnal), 
such as those of 
erubbing up corpses 
from graveyards, hunt- 
ing down animals, or, 
in some cases, carrying 
off children. Moore ee 
calls its cry a “moan,” TSR a 
but sometimes there is 
a ery like sardonic 
laughter, whence the 
animal is called the 
Laughing Hyena. No en SO 
words can give an ade- : 
quate idea of this ani- 
mal’s figure, deformity, 
and fierceness. More 
savage and untamable 
than any other quad- 
ruped, it seems to be 
ever in a rage. and, 
except when taking its 
food, ever growling. 
Its eyes then glisten, 
the bristles on its back all stand upright, its head hangs low, and yet its teeth appear, all of 
which give it a most frightful aspect, which a dreadful howl tends to heighten; its beginning 
sasttberer ce SS Se 
BLACK POINTED TEGUEXIN. 
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YELLOW CYCLODUS. 
BLUE TONGUED CYCLODUS. 
