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Show I 8LOWKST OF ALL ANIMAL8. Scientist Unanimously Award Palm to the Lorl. Scientist! sny that tho slowest-mov-Ing mammal In existence Is the hIow-patd hIow-patd lorlii. an animal moro or less closely allied to the monkeys Its technlcnl name Is "nyctlclhas tardl-Kradtis," tardl-Kradtis," tho last part of which might he translated "lazy-fooled." One of them, when timed, look oxaetly thirty-two thirty-two ml nu 1 en and three seconds in moving mov-ing across a iipnee of four feel toward a toach that It was endeavoring to capture. The animal belonged to an Asiatic genus that extends from Java nnd Sumatra through llorneo and quite posslhly some of the Philippine. Islands, through parts of Hindustan. When Its pniRiess was timed. It advanced ad-vanced "within ten or twelve Inches of Its quarry, tested upon Its hands, drew Us hind feet gradually forward until almost under Its hreast. very hlowly and cautiously raised Itself upright up-right Into h standing position, balancing balanc-ing awkwardly with uplifted arms, and then threw Itself bodily not upon the Insect, which was on like an arrow from a Tartar's how. but upon the spot the roach had occupied half a second before ' |