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Pug, we see grotesqueness and exaggeration of certain features 

 and markedly sluggish habits. 



The Bears, Weasels and Raccoons are a very diverse group. 

 The latter may be reckoned among the graceful and active 

 forms. But the Bears are, without exception, clumsy and ill- 

 proportioned, with their short and yet pointed muzzles, very 

 small ears, heavy great body, absence of tails, and clumsy 

 plantigrade feet. There are, no doubt, certain of the group that 

 are less ill-favoured, such as the Himalayan Black Bear, but 

 the Sloth Bear is a hideous ill-shaped creature of timid and 

 sluggish life. The whole family of Bears are animals in which 

 sluggishness of habit prevails considerably, though they are all 

 powerful and fierce when attacked, the Grizzly Bear being one 

 of the fiercest of wild animals. The gait of all of them is un- 

 gainly, even at their full speed. 



Insectivores approach more to Rodents in general form 

 than to other groups, and are, like them, generally elongated in 

 body and head, with short limbs, and somewhat primitive in 

 general form. They are mostly of very active habits, except in 

 so far as they are hybernating animals. The Hedgehogs are 

 ill-shaped and clumsy, and less active than most other Insecti- 

 vorous forms. 



Bats are strange and grotesque animals, forms highly 

 specialized for a special form of aerial life. The less ugly of 

 them are extremely ill-proportioned, and the more ugly form, 

 such as the Malayan Naked Bat, the Leaf-Nosed Bat, the 

 Flower-Nosed Bat, the False Vampire Bat, are strange, 

 grotesque animals, without any approach to beauty of form. 

 All are active in their nocturnal aerial life, but spend a very 

 large part of their time suspended on the boughs of trees by a 

 specially-adapted modification of the digits of the fore-limb into 

 a hook. 



The Primates include Lemuridce, Hapalidce or Marmosets, 

 Monkeys, Anthropoid Apes and Man. 



Lemuridce are quiet and nocturnal in habits, and mostly of 

 an elongated form, with pointed snout and very long bushy tails, 

 and hardly to be called beautiful or the reverse, though among 

 them are several very ugly forms, such as Tarsier, Aye-Aye and 

 Loris. Marmosets are also somewhat disproportioned creatures 



