Identifier: fourhandedfolk00mill2 (find matches)
Title: Four-handed folk
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, Harriet Mann, 1831-1918
Subjects: Animal behavior Monkeys
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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est. In this operation they usedthe claws of the hind feet alone, twisting thebody easily in several directions, changing feetwhen tired, and picking the fur as a bird dressesits feathers. Even the head was combed by theclaws of the hind feet, and after an hour of thiswork, the little creatures were beautifully sleekand glossy. Another ball-maker is the koala or Australiannative bear. He is a most attractive little beast,not much bigger than a cat, clothed in long ashygray fur. His short face, with its large blackeyes and nose and the long hairy decorations ofhis ears, gives him a quaint expression. He rollshimself ujd to sleep, and when awake the drollblack-haired baby travels about perched on theshoulders of his mamma, and makes a charmino;picture to look at. Nearly every part of the world furnishes aball - maker. In Africa is found one of thestrangest of beasts, the galago, belonging to theLemur family. There are several species, somethe size of a rat, and others as large as a cat.
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THE ARMADILLO AND DULK-IilLL LIVING BALLS. 35 but their manners and habits are about thesame. They are, like the kinkajou, night - lovers.During the day they prefer to sleep, rolled upinto a ball, but at night they are as full ofpranks as a monkey. They will jump about,holding themselves upright like a kangaroo,from the floor to a table, or to a persons shoul-der, sometimes uttering a loud cry, or a livelychattering, and again going about in perfectsilence. The galagos are pretty little creatures withwoolly fur and very long bushy tails, and theyare four-handed. They have great staring eyes,as night-loving creatures are apt to have, andtheir ears are curious, very large, and capableof being folded or drawn down so as to bealmost closed, — a convenient arrangement forfellows who want to sleep all day. Some ofthem have been kept as pets, and others inmuseums, and they are very entertaining. The island of Madagascar contributes to theball-making beasts one of the strangest animalsin th

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