Show FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS some como peculiarities of Differ different ont speckles of animated thina all animals which chow chew tho cud have cloven or split hoofs animals of tho the bovine cow order have no tooth in the front of the upper apper jaw the owl is unable to move the eyeball which is immovably fixed in the socket by a strong elastic cartil S lag inous case there is no country in the world in which the raven is not found to be a native it is also the only bird known to ornithologists which is of such cosmopolitan mo politan character the frog cowinq to its peculiar structure cannot breathe with its mouth open and if it were forcibly kept crept open the creature would die of 1 tion in the parrots beak botti both mandibles cire are movable a peculiarity unknown in other species of birds P fish ish swallow their food whole because they are obliged to keep continually opening and closing 1 the mouth for the purpose of respiration rabbits sn snakes alces birds and fishes never close their eyes because with eyelids tho the rabbit and the common barnyard fowl are each provided with a thin membrane which is let down over the eye when asleep or at rest the horse has no eyebrows and if much white is visible in the eye itself it is a sure sign of a vicious nature the british cuckoo and the american cow blackbird never build nests of their own but content themselves with depositing their eggs in the nests of other and smaller representatives of the feathered tribe st louis republic |