Show oddities in animal life the horn of the rhinoceros is not joined to the bone of the head but grows on the skin like a corn or wart nvart the colors of a champlion cha do not change instantly as Is popularly supposed but require a considerable length of time the idea that the toad is poisonous has a foundation in fact their skins secrete an acrid fluid which to is very irritating to human flesh condors have been seen to circle to and fro in the skies for or halt half a day at a time rising and descending without once flapping a win i ing there is a mastery in s about their meth sit id 0 of motion that has never been explained A rats teeth have a very hard anterior edge while the hinder p past it dively soft ily by continual gnawing the rat manages to wear aay tile the soft part of its tooth substance tance keeping the hard part at a razors razors edge there are several species of lizards which when frightened will amputate their own tails by a quick jerk the discarded member flounces around and attracts the enemy while the body is if cf etching its escape within a few weeks the discarded member grows out full length and the lizard is again ready to lo work a trick on an enemy |