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  • resembles a canine. (See Tree-Shrew.) In Africa the tupaias are apparently represented by the jumping-shrews, or elephant-shrews (so called from their elongated...
    303 bytes (7,549 words) - 00:15, 22 April 2020
  • Records:— Berkshire—Marsh-Harrier, 143; Lesser Shrew, 381, 421; Bank Vole, 381, 421 Cambridgeshire—Lesser Shrew, 421 Cheshire—Great Tit, 143; Longtailed Field-Mouse...
    592 bytes (7,822 words) - 09:30, 19 July 2023
  • in range, and mainly Ethiopian. Macroscelides, the Elephant Shrews, are jumping creatures of Shrew-like appearance, combined with a Marsupial look. Both...
    340 bytes (8,112 words) - 08:18, 12 February 2017
  • the "star-nosed mole" and the "elephant shrew." I have never had the opportunity of examining the young of moles or shrews. This would be very desirable...
    594 bytes (4,939 words) - 08:52, 2 October 2018
  • congeners were not relished by the mammalian carnivores. The bad smell of the shrew prevents the cat from eating it. Probably the snakes were less dainty, and...
    782 bytes (5,005 words) - 09:24, 2 October 2018
  • Quata 32     Rabbit 224 Rhinoceros 155 Ruminants 172     Seals 93 Sheep 194 Shrews 56 Sloths 229 Sperm-whale 107 Spider-monkeys 31 Squirrels 206 Squirrel Phalanger...
    454 bytes (3,992 words) - 21:34, 22 July 2024
  • root-stock forms a large fleshy mass resembling an elephant's foot, used as food by the Hottentots; El′ephant-shrew, name applied to a number of long-nosed, long-legged...
    90 KB (12,727 words) - 12:40, 11 July 2022
  • while among the Insectivora the tupais, or tree-shrews (Tupaiidae), .with three genera, and the rat-shrews (Gymnurinae), also with three generic modifications...
    527 bytes (25,724 words) - 16:42, 4 February 2021
  • genera Petrodromus and Rhynchocyon belonging to the Macroscelididæ, or elephant-shrews, restricted to the continent; numerous peculiar genera or sub-genera...
    139 KB (13,619 words) - 15:04, 25 August 2021
  • 15.—MACROSCELIDIDÆ. (3 Genera, 10 Species.) The Macroscelides, or elephant shrews, are extraordinary little animals, with trunk-like snout and kangaroo-like...
    222 KB (23,072 words) - 00:25, 5 August 2021
  • the fore feet are larger, the joints of the hind feet being short, and also an elephant's knees bend inward like a man's, whereas the other animals bend...
    149 KB (27,565 words) - 19:44, 23 May 2018
  • are, Dysopes, a bat of the family Noctilionidæ; Macroscelides, the elephant shrew, in North Africa; Genetta, the civet, in South Europe; Herpestes, the...
    153 KB (18,729 words) - 11:53, 11 October 2021
  • and spiders; the water-birds brenthos and gull and goshawk and buzzard; shrew-mice and herons lying in wait for each other's young; that very tiny bird...
    114 KB (21,031 words) - 04:16, 28 February 2019
  • J., on the Kaffirs, 579; on the marriage-customs of the Kaffirs, 598. Shrew-mice, odour of, 528. Shrike, Drongo, 461. Shrikes, characters of young,...
    234 bytes (36,108 words) - 18:09, 28 March 2016
  • weasels, wolves and foxes. Of the Insectivora, numerous forms of moles, shrews and hedgehogs prevail. The Rodents are also well represented by various...
    663 bytes (36,929 words) - 05:20, 9 March 2022
  • other Hayti. These are small animals about the size of a cat, with long shrew-like snout, bare rat-like tail, and long claws. Their peculiar dentition...
    210 KB (27,672 words) - 12:06, 11 October 2021
  • Post-Pliocene formations, i. 130 birthplace and migrations of, i. 155 ii. 227 Elephant shrews, S. African, i. 267 ii. 186 Elephas, Post-Pliocene, i. 112 fossil in...
    375 KB (28,450 words) - 15:17, 25 August 2021
  • Clustfyddar, a. deaf-eared Clustgyfaddef, n. auricular confession Clustiog, a. having ears Clustiol, a. auricular Clustlipa, a. flap-eared Clustog, n. a cushion...
    332 bytes (131,816 words) - 20:16, 17 September 2017
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