Arizona republican., 1918-02-17
STRANGE FACTS OF
 THE ANIMAL LIFE
(st. Louis Globe-Democrat)


 The proper study of mankind is| man." said Pope, and under that head may well be included the entire animal kingdom. To be ignorant of the pe- culiarities of the animals that share with us, is to go through life with ones eyes shut Here is a chapter which will prove interesting, and may be surprising.
 The reason that anything of a red color excites and infuriates the OK tribe is because red is the complementary color of green, and the green Of oxen being long fixed upon the green herb age while feeding, when they spy any thing red, it impresses their sight with a greatly increased intensity. The same effect is doubtless produced upon all grazing animals by a red color. but oxen, being more pugnacious than oth- CTS, show great excitement and often attack that which surprises them.
 All animals which chew the cud have eleven 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 month of the Greenland or right, whale, where it 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, and those in each great geological division possess the organization the most com pleX and the faculties most developed; while in the polar regions are found beings occupying a rank but little ele- vated in the geological series.
 The apes, for example are limited to the hottest parts of the two continents. It is the same with parrots among birds; the crocodile and tortoise among reptiles, and with land crabs among the crustacea-all animals the most perfect in their respective classes. The owl has no motion of the eye, the globe of which is immovably fixed in its socket by a strong elastic, hard, cartilaginous case ia 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 it's head round in almost complete circle with . out moving its body.
 There is no country in which the ra . ven is not found native. The margin i of the desert, of the jungle or of the l forest in the hottest climates, the heights of alternate cliffs and heath and even the lichen-c clad margins of l the inhabited regions near the poles are all equally its abode.
 1 Both mandibles of the parrots beal are movable, but most birds are able to move only one.
 The frog, owing to it's peculiar struc- ture, cannot breathe with the mouth open; and if it were forcibly kept opeI the animal would die of suffocation.
 Fishes swallow their food hastily ant without mastication, because they arc | obliged increasingly to open and close | the laws for the purpose of respiration and cannot long retain food in tn, mouth when quite shut.
 The eyes of hares are never closed as they are unprovided with the eye. lids. Instead thereof, they have a thr mebrane, which covers the eye wher asleep. and probably also when at rest
 The horse has no eyebrows.
 The appearance of much white in tn, eye of a horse indicates a vicious na ture, because high-tempered hors, looks constantly about. apprehensive O