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Show Freaks in Animal World, Unlike most nnimals horses have no eyebrows and hares are minus eyelids. eye-lids. Consequently the eyes of the latter cannot be shut and a thin membraneous mem-braneous substanco covers them when asleep. The eyu of tho owl is also very peculiar, seeing that It Is immovably immov-ably llxed In Its socket nnd cannot stir in any direction. To compensate for this seeming disadvantage it can turn Its head almost completely around without moving Its body. If you were to keep a frog's mouth open many minutes It would soon die, as owing to Its peculiar construction it can only breathe with thu mouth closed. On the other hand, fishes are compolled to keep opening und closing clos-ing their mouths In order to give their respiratory organs full pluy. A curious fact about tho eel Is that it has less Ufa In its head than Its tall; consequently when killing an eel the llshermun smashes Its tall. It also has two hearts, Snakes usually havo their teeth In the head, hut one 1 vnrloty In Africa, whose principal food Is eggs, Is provided with n substV'iite I for them In its stomach. |