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...mammal and tamed; she has six sides, right, left, front, back, top and bottom. At the back end, there is a tail from which hangs a plume with which she drives off the flies so that they cannot fall in the milk. The head has for its aim to have horns and that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are there for horning, the mouth for chewing a cud. Under the cow hangs the milk and it is arranged to be milked. When people milk, the milk comes and there is never an end to the reserve. I have...
...male and a female of the shyest of all species of African antelopes, the Bongo, and a Giant Forest Hog, so large that it might be mistaken for a small rhinoceros, are the latest very valuable additions to the mammal collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. The animals were shot by Frederick G. Carnochan '13 on a recent trip to East Africa...
Raymond Lee Ditmars last week turned to his work at the New York Zoological Park where he is curator of reptiles and manager of the mammal department. He had spent the summer in Central America. As always when he returns home, he had some new stories...
...Lodge in southern Montana, found some old broken eggs. They thought the eggs might have been laid 50 million years ago by an awkward dinosaur. The fragments were black, rough, pitted. Near the locality, in the same geological formation, the scientists were surprised to unearth the tooth of a mammal. Mammals are seldom found in cretaceous formations. Other dinosaur eggs known today were found seven years ago by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia. His eggs were estimated to be several million years older than Dr. Jepsen's. The only other eggs were unearthed years ago in England. British...
...Adolescence is a misnomer. There is no phase of development which delimits the state of adolescence unless it be the sudden supervention of those phenomena associated with the blossoming of the sex function. But this occurs over a wide range of years. . . . Man is the only mammal with a prolonged period of development which may roughly be called the age of adolescence." At birth a rat has a physiological age equivalent to a nine-year-old child. "The elephant, in spite of its huge bulk, seems to pass through the successive phases of development to adulthood at approximately the same...