Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-07-13
living BABY CARRIAGES.
APPROPRIATE NAME FOR NUN.
BER or ANIMALS.
The Peculiar Manner in Which Na,r.
Has provided Them With Fa-
! ciIities For Transporting
Their Young.

The Kangaroo is the best known
example OF living baby carriage Bpt
ii is NOT at all necessary to go as far
as. Australia to find an animal which
carries its young in precisely the same
way that the Kangaroo does Our
opossum is provided With pouch ex.
actly as the kangaroo is, and the mo-
.ment. IFS babies. are born it puts them
into the pouch and keeps them there
until they are better ahIe to take care
of themselves
I, Somewhat the same plan is adoptea
by tie beautiftr Fittfe fish called the
'sea-horse from its remarkable resem.
,blanc. TO our horse. Only the father
does the work in this case, and carries
mot the living babies. but the eggs
which he gathers up, after the mother
has laid Them. and puts in pouch
near his tail
There rs even e bird wiifieoir ;, Ir-iaS-
Its egg in sac near its tail This is
the penguin, Bird without feathers
and with wings so short that it can.
not fly.
Dogs. cats and other animals of the
same kind, pick up their babies in
their teeth; but there are some ami.
mails which go further, and carry their
young literally in their mouths.
Some snakes viii Mt any alarm re-
it-n hp.,n IL. II, rr,{r-
And an unpleasant sight It u.s. too. to
ssss number of Kissing wriggIiug lit
tie reptiles disappearing into the gap
ing mouth Of the parent snake
I There issa"fish, too, called the chrom-
ispaterfamilias. which does the same
thing. TIE fatiier-fislL. in the first
place. stuffs, his gills full Of eggs. and
afterward, when the LITTLE fish arr. fin
ally hatcired they swim in nnd out of
1.-THE devoted fatfier's mouth at their
pleasure.
Many animals carry their babies on
their backs, and this is particularly
the caSerwith water animals. or those
that pass part Of the rime i'm the water.
The hippopotamus does su and the
stupid cooking little BALL od pins flesh
looks extremely odf as it rides about
in thisSway.
The walruS too. often carries It's
baby in the same way, though Just as
often IL carries ii under its ffIpp3r in
very human like fashion. The latter
plan. of using the ifpper like an arm.
is also practiced by the whale in
carrying its young
Several of the water birds carry
theinyourg on their backs. and pref
tier. sight can hardly be imagined than
dainty, downy brood smuggling to-
getiier on its baek One bird. at least
tie sulllemGc-takes her solitary
baby on her back, and flies through. che
air with It.
IN South America, what is known as
Mefians oposSum-a first cousin f.onr
opossum-has q very comical way. Of
carrying its young. The whole family
may be having frolic among the
branches Of 4 tree. when suddeaiy the
warchful mother will sound an-alarm
and stand quite still. with her long
tail laid along her back. Tfp little
ones at once scamper to ifer and
scramble up on her back, at the same
time curling their little taify tightly
around hers. And there they stand,
half on one side, and half ob-the other
while the mother runs awayr4o a place
of safety.
The Surinam toad, however. taxes
the heaviest burden on her back or,
more properly, her back After she
has laid her eggs, her husband deposits
them snugly in the cavities with which
her back is plentifully pitted: There
the eggs hatch into taapoles, ana the
tadpoles turn into toasis before they
are ready to leave their snug, quarters.
-Golden Days.