The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-01-04
UEIRD LITTLE BEASTS
Some Beautiful 4nnaals, LDithout Race Family.
That Woutd Make Most Interesting Pets.

the full of their disposition and accomplishments
by daylight they obviously the most desrat
possible pets which world To describe
unlike other necessarily easy task but the
of these knkajous sereney confident that is
if not brother kinkajou that it affords facility for
ing careful inspection of it's beauties 1t is covered fro
head to the tip of its long tail with close fur
moss, with texture like plush, and tints varying from
brown the back old gold under its stomach
the fattened legs and shot
soft rounded rather exquste1y furred
hands are beautifully made plump SOFT babys
bare fingers and palms. By preference it the tip
tail it's visitors hands, and then slides down it's
tail, lowering itself hind hands feet. Then
full length still holding onto it's tail by it's
hind hands which just reach comfortably about an inch
and half from the base of the tall and spreading it's
little fore hands either side as if it
going to make speech swings gently to and fro Oc-
casionay it puts out long ribbon1ike tongue and
ticks fingers, friends fingers, smooths the fur
it's eyebrow. 1t should be said that its head is
short, its muzzle somewhat pointed its round and
upright and it's brown and dreamy, with the pupils
contracted to mere nont for though not so rugged in
sleep the lemurs it is nightfeeding creature It's
length is perhaps and half feet and its home is
tropical of Central and South America Why
it should it's tail if the latter
the end OF which was not connected with its body is not
obvious, certain how it obtains its living It's
little fingers webbed almost up the nails yet it
lives in and is said thrust it's long tongue into
all kinds Of crevces and draw thence the insects and
beetles hiding there The spanards and Mexcans called
it honey bear because it robs the wild bees nests
and ticks up the honey from the comb. One kept for
seven years a would hold a piece of bread and
butter in one hand and break off and eat bits with the
other hung it's favore attitude suspended by
its tall and drew in food through the wires of it's
with it's tongue At night it was full of play, activity
: and affection.
! THE "AYE-AYE" AND OTHER STRANGERS
Three other 'odd volumes of the animal world
generally found placed less in uxaposton in the
list of various between the lemurs and whatever family
is selected follow them. These the aye-aye, the
colugo and the tarsier strange names and stranger
beasts The first is thcky furred slow moving long
tailed treeving beast found in the most inaccessible
parts Madagascar Like other animals from
that home of abnormal life it was first described by
1Sfc ubOfr tho Of
Reunion always to have endeavored to learn
something of the strange fauna of the great island
them. 1t is quite unlike any other animal, has no
"aflnes," and the most extraordinary weird and skee
ton hands addition to their being twice too large
it's body they almost feshess, with long,
thin fingers These armed with cawlike nails. One
finger the central seems to have become arophied
and wthered and all the fingers Of different lengths,
like the implements in of those knives which hold
every from corkscrew toothpick. Apparently
this LOB lot of fingers is employed much in the
fat grubs from holes in the bamboo
stems, to clean its fur the fourth finger (the
largest and longest to thrust into moist food like
pick the other keep in it's place.
and sucking it. These pecularites by exhaust
the points of the aye-aye. The name is said to be
taken from the exclamation of surprise uttered by the
natives (ho had one when M. Sonnerat first
In 1881 there only specimen in
Europe.
THE PULLING CoLUGo.
If the aye-aye is structural puzzle, the colugo is
equally difficult order. 1t first thought
to be bat, for it hung like bat from
the branches Of trees in the Mouccas. Then
it pronounced to be flying squirrel,
large cat, is covered with soft, emurlike fur BIT
parachute only between the forelegs and hindles
flying squirrels but also between the hndlegs like
IA strange and perpexing animal, as an early natu
plaintively remarked. The tarsier les Spec
is it's name its appearance is weird and fantastic
tail like piece of foxta hands and tees wit