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Show Large Ears of Forest Animals. Within the limits of particular groups larce cuts may bo taken, as a rule, to Indicate either great powers of hearing or the necessity of catching every wave of sound, says tho Scientific Scien-tific American. Thus, forest dwelling animals gonoinily have much larger, and especially broader, eais than their 1 iclatlves Inhabiting open country, 1 An excellent Instance of tills Is nf-folded nf-folded by tho okapi of tho Semllkl forest, for-est, as contrasted with tho giraffe of thu more open dlxtilets of Africa the ears In tho one case being excessively lu on d and leaf-like, while lu thu other they aro comparatively uurrow and pointed. Slmilaily, (irovy'a zebra, which Inhabits sciiib jungles In Bom-alilaml Bom-alilaml and northeast Vfrlca generally, general-ly, has much longer nnd wider enrs than tho ordinary rel.ia of tho open I veldt. |