Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-21
ANIMAL IRREGULARITIES.
A Number of Interesting Facts in Ne
ural History.

Number of Interesting Facts In Nat
ural History.
From the Boston Herald.l
The reason that anything of a red color
excites and infuriates the OK tribe is be-
cause red is the complimentary color of
green, and the eyes of oxen, being long
fixed upon the green herbage while feed
ing, when they espy anything red it inn
presses their sight with greatly increased
intensity. The same effect is doubtless
produced upon all grazing animals by red
color, but oxen, being more pugnacious than
others, show greater excitement, and often
attack that which surprises them.
All animals which chew the cud have
cloven feet.
Sheep have no teeth In the upper jaw. In
some parts of the world there are sheep that
have most of their fat in their tails. These
tails weigh so much that they have to be
tied on small carts, which the sheep draw af-
ter them when they walk. The carts are
made of fat boards on two wheels. The fat
of the tail is very soft and Is used as butter.
Whalebone is found in the mouth of the
whalebone whale, where it forms the substi-
tuts for teeth, of which otherwise the ami
NAL is destitute.
In the hottest climates the animals are
found most to approach man; and those in
each great geological division possess the Or
ganization the most complex and the facul-
ties most developed; while in the polar re-
gions are found only beings occupying rank
but little elsvated in the geological series.
The apes, for example, are limited to the
| hottest parts of the two continents: 1t is the
| same with parrots among BIRDS the croco-
| dilo and tortoise among reptiles and with
! land crabs among the orustacea-all animals
| the most perfect In their respective classes.
The owl has no motion In the eye, the globe
of which is immovably fixed in its socket by
| q strong, elastic, hard, cartila0inous case, in
i %ha of n frupcata1 huf in nr1nr
to compensate for this absence of motion in
| the eye, it Is able to turn It's head round in
almost complete circle without moving Its
body.
There is no country in which the raven Ia
not found native. The margin of the des-
ert, of the jungle or of the forest, in the
hottest climates; the heights of alternate
cliff and copse in temperate climates. or tht
rocks and heaths, and even tho lichen clat
margins of the inhabited regions near thu
poles, are all equally its abode.
Both mandibles of the parrots beak ar,
movable, but most birds are able to NOV
only one.
The stork is partial to kittens as an articl
: Of food, and finds them an easy and whole
some prey; and the cats reoiprocate by
love for young storks.
> The frog, owing to Its peculiar structure
cannot breathe with the mouth open; and
it were foroibly kept open, the animal woult
die of suffocation.
Fishes swallow their food hastily an,
= without mastication, because they ar
, | obliged INCREASINGLY to open and close tn
not long retain food in the mouth whel
quite shut.
VI Persons turn pale when affected by fes
because the respiration and the aff1ux of al
terial blood are diminished.
f The ticking of watch may be heard dis
!. tinctly when it is placed against the teetl
" because sound is capable of being produce
l. by the vibration of solid bodies without th
!. Intervention of the atmosphere, and in tn
j instance the sound is conveyed from Il
teeth through the bones of the face an
head to the auditory nerves.
r The eyes of hares are never closed, as the
It are unprovided with the eyelids. Instes
u thereof they have a thin membrane, whic
. covers the eye when asleep, and probab
= curtain in the corner of the eye, and
Ia an instantaneous action flies back VIII,
sight is required, and leaves the eye immed
ately and fully open for the exercise of sigh
10 Pigs are poor swimmers, their forelegs
=. ing set closely under them, and when tn
~ sometimes fall into the water they cut the
ID throats with the sharp points of their Glow
9, feet.
10 The horse has no eyebrows
The appearance of much white in the 9
"a of horse indicates vicious nature, becau
I'd high tempered horse looks constant
10 about, apprehensive of danger, or desiring
ot do mischief. The quick motion of the ey
;, ball in opposite directions exposes an unus
D. ally large surface of white, which thus
no comes an evidence of the temper of the al
We NAL.
II. The hump on the back of the dromeds
:, is an accumulation of peculiar species
VIC fat, which is store of nourishment benz
NJ Gently provided against the day of want,
,e- which the animal is often exposed.
-, dromedary or camel can exist for long
,i' riod upon this hump without any other fo
ne The deer is furnished with supplement-
,e- breathing places in addition to the nostr
Ma and this would appear to be an extraordin
-. provision of nature, giving the beast of
ia' chase a freer respiration.
tty Tortoises and turtles have no teeth.
1T. The cuckoo deposits her eggs in the NJ