A QUEER-LOOKING GROUND HOG. 



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and difficult to find. In another case, that of the 

 specter tarsius, the same cause has seemingly worked 

 an opposite result, for the harmless but dreaded little 

 specters owe their safety to the fact that the natives 

 fear to approach them. 



A QUEER-LOOKING GROUND HOG. 



HOW HE LIVES AND WHAT HE LIVES ON. 



Among burrowing animals none are more strangely 

 constructed than the aard-vark or ground hog of 

 southern Africa. At first, as he sits with rounded 



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A queer-looking ground hog. 



back, his long ears projecting over his shoulders, he 

 looks like a gigantic hare, but he has the broad, thick 

 tail of a kangaroo ; his long, conical head and small 

 eyes remind one of a pig, but he has long, flattened 

 claws, five on the hind limbs and four on the front, 



