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NATUKAL HISTOET. 



99. The Kinkajou, Fig. 44, is found in South America. 



It has been called 

 the Honey Bear, be- 

 cause it is so fond of 

 attacking the nests 

 of the wild bee, lick- 

 ing out the honey 

 from the cells with 



Tig. 44.— Kinksijuu. jtg Jong tongue. It 



is also very expert with its tongue in catching flies and 

 other insects. Its tail it uses, like the Spider Monkey of 

 the same country, in clinibing. It is easily tamed, and is 

 as playful as a cat. 



100. The family Phocidse {(pioxn, phoM, a seal) are 

 Quadrupeds, and yet they are fitted to live in water as 

 well as on the land. There was an approach to this in 

 the Otters, § 91. Seals and other animals having a sim- 

 ilar mixture of terrestrial and aquatic habits, are often 

 termed amphibious animals, from ayix^t, amphi, both ; 

 /3ioc, bios, life. 



101. The limbs of the Seal are like paddles. The arm 

 and forearm of the anterior limbs are very short, so that 

 the paw extends but little from the body. The paw is 

 made of what corresponds to the finger-bones in man, 

 covered with a skin which stretches between the fingers, 

 so as to resemble the webbed feet of swimming birds. 

 In giving the backward stroke in swimming the fingers 

 are spread out, but in the forward stroke they are brought 

 together. The hinder limbs are directed backward, so 



as to look very much 

 like a tail at the end 

 of the tapering body, 

 as seen in Fig. 45. In 

 swimming, it uses the 

 fore paws as paddles, 

 and the hinder ones, 

 Fig. 45.— Seal. with an up and down 



