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The Living Animals of the World, Volume 1 (of 2)
C. J. Cornish
From the cat tribe to the bears and the seals, the living animals of the world parade through this first volume. C. J. Cornish covers the carnivores in vivid description: hyenas, dogs, civets, and the great marine hunters. Rich, illustrated natural history for the general reader. A grand survey of the beasts of land and sea. Meet the mammals of the world, family by family.
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24 chapters
- 1Contents
- 2Introduction
- 3I. Apes, monkeys, and lemurs.
- 4II. The cat tribe.
- 5III. The fossa, civets, and ichneumons.
- 6IV. The hyænas and aard-wolf.
- 7V. The dog family.
- 8VI. The bears.
- 9VII. The smaller carnivora.
- 10VIII. Marine carnivora: the seals, sea-lions, and walrus.
- 11IX. The rodents, or gnawing animals.
- 12X. The bats and insect-eating mammals.
- 13XI. The elephant, tapir, hyrax, and rhinoceros.
- 14XII. The horse tribe.
- 15XIII. The hollow-horned ruminants: oxen, bison, buffaloes, and musk-ox.
- 16XIV. The sheep and goats.
- 17XV. The antelopes.
- 18XVI. The giraffe and okapi.
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