Emery County Progress | 1905-02-25 | Page 2 | Slowest of All Animals

SLOWEST OF ALL ANIMALS unan award palm to the loras scientists say that the slowest ing mammal in existence Is the slow paced loras an animal more or less closely allied to the monkeys its technical name is fradua the last part of which might be translated lazy footed one of them when timed took exactly thirty two minutes and three seconds in ing across a space of four feet toward a roach that it was endeavoring to capture the animal belonged to an asiatic genus that extends from java and sumatra through borneo and quite possibly some of the philippine islands through parts of hindustan when its progress was timed it ad danced within ten or twelve inches of its quarry rested upon its hands drew its hind feet gradually forward until almost under its breast very slowly and cautiously raised itself upright into a standing position balano ing awkwardly with uplifted arms and then threw itself bodily not upon the insect which was off like an arrow from a tartars bow but upon the spot the roach had occupied half a second before