Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-16
VAGAR!ES OF ANIMAL LIFE
Why Anything of Red Color Infuriatcs
the OK Tribe.

the OK Tribe.
The proper study Of mankind is
man" said Pope. and under that head
may well be included the entire ami
NAL kingdom. To be ignorant of the
peculiarities of the animals that share
with us, is to go thru life with ones
-eyes shut. Here is chapter which
will prove interesting, and may be
surprising.
The reason that anything Of n red
color eXcites and infuriatcs the OK
tribe is because red is the compile
mentary color Of green, and the eyes
of oxen being long fixed upon the
green herbage while feeding, when
they spy anything red, IL imprcssos
their sight with a greatly increased
intensity. The same effect Is doubt
less produced upon all grazing animals
by red color, but oxen, being more
pugnacious thap others, show great
excitement and often attack that
which surprises them.
All animals which chew the cud
have cloNcn 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
after them when they walk. The cars
are made OF flat 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 Greeland, or right, whale,
where IL forms the substitute for the
teeth, of which otherwise the animal
is destitute.
In the hottest climates the animals
are found most to approach man. ana
those in each great geological division
possess the organization tho most
complex and the faculties most devel-
oped, while in the polar regions are
found beings occupying n rank but
little elevated in the geological series.
The apes, for example. are limited
TO the hottest parts Of the two cOnti-
nents. 1t is the same with parrots
among birds; the crocodile and tor
tose among reptiles, and with land
crabs among the crustacea-all ami
mails the most perfect in their re
spective classes.
The owl has no motion of the eye,
the globe of which Is immovably fixed
in its socket by strong, elastic, hard,
cartillaginous case in the form of a
truncated cone; but in order to COM
pensate for this absence Of motion in
the eye, It is able to turn its head
round in almost a complete circle
without moving its body.
There is no country in which the
raven is not found native. The margin
of the desert, of the jungle or of the
forest I'm the hottest climates, the
heights of alternate cliffs and heath,
and even the lichen-clad margins of
the inhabited regions near the poles,
ore all euuallV its abode
Both mandibles of the parrots bealt
are movable, but most birds are able
TO move only one.
The frog. owing to its peculiar
structure, cannot breathe with the
mouth open; and If it were forcibly
kept open the mouth would die of
suffocation.
Fishes swallow their food hastily
and without mastication, because
they are\ obliged increasingly to open
and close the jaws for the purpose of
respiration, and cannot long retain
food in the mouth when quite shut.
The eyes of hares are never closed,
as they are unprovided with the eye
lids. Instead thereof, they have thin
membrane, which covers the eye when
asleep, and probably also when at
rest
The horse has no eyebrows.
The appearance of much white in
the eye of horse indicates a vicious
nature, because a high-tempered horse
looks constantly about, apprehensive
Of danger or desiring to do mischief.
The quick motion of the eyeball in
opposite directions exposes an unusu-
ally large surface of white, which
thus becomes an evidence of the tenn
per of the animal.
The hump on the back of the drom-
edary is an accumulation Of pc
culiar species of fat, which is n store
of nourishment beneficially provided
against the day OF want to which the
animal is often exposed. The drome-
dairy or camel can exist for a long
period upon this hump without any
other food.
The deer is furnished with supple
mentary breathing places in addition
to the nostrils, and this would appear
to be an extraordinary provision OF
nature, giving the beast of the chase
a freer respiration.
Tortoises and turtles have no teeth.
The crocodile devours all kinds OF
birds 1t can get but one, the zic-zac.
1t is said that when the crocodile
comes on shore he opens his Jaws,
and this bird enters and swallows the
leeches which are found about the
animals jaws and teeth and which
have collected there owing to the crea-
ture being for so long n time in the
water. The relief afforded by having
the leeches withdrawn induces the
crocodile to tolerate the presence of
the bird.
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