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along; but when it is in its native element, it moves with 

 exceeding rapidity, particularly in a gale of wind, when it 

 passes from branch to branch, and from tree to tree, with 

 an activity which its movements on the ground by no means 

 portend. " 



The There are two species of the Pangolin, or 



Pangolin. Manis, the long-tailed and the short-tailed, the 

 former being a native of Africa and the latter of the East Indies. 

 The long-tailed manis measures about five feet inclusive of 

 the tail which is about three feet long, the short-tailed manis 

 about four feet in all. All the upper parts of its body are 

 closely covered with scales of different sizes, which, as they 

 are attached to the skin only by the lower extremity, it can 

 erect at pleasure, opposing to its adversary a formidable row 

 of offensive weapons. They are sharp at the point, and so 

 hard as, on collision, to strike fire like a flint The moment 

 it perceives the approach of an enemy, it rolls itself up like 

 a hedgehog, by which means it covers all the weaker parts 

 of its body. The Pangolins live on ants, which they catch 

 by thrusting their long slender tongues into the midst of their 

 prey, their tongues being covered by a gummy saliva to which 

 the ants adhere. 



The The Armadillo is a native of South America, 



Armadillo, jn which country there are several varieties. They 

 are all covered with a strong crust or shell, resembling, as 

 the Rev. J. G. Wood puts it, "the modified plate armour" worn 

 by men in the i6th century. They eat vegetables and insects, 

 and do good work as scavengers. They biurow with great 

 rapidity and when rolled up, after the manner of the hedgehog, 

 are invulnerable to their ordinary enemies. 



The Cape The Cape Ant-Bear belongs to the Cape of 



Ant-Bear. Good Hope. It differs from the ant-eaters of the 

 western world in many ways, being a hairy animal without 

 scales, its head resembling that of the deer kind, having long 

 ears but no homs. The length of its body which is covered 



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