Woman is not the only mammal for whom, apart from the peculiar form of the penis, the first approaches are painful; but there is perhaps no female who has better reason than the mole for fearing the male.
If they burst upon the drifting mammal where would I be?
It had disappeared as mysteriously as it had risen and seemingly all it had killed the mammal for was to eat its tongue.
These cells are the materials out of which the body of the young mammal is constructed.
At first the fructified egg of the mammal acts as a single-celled organism, which is about to propagate independently and increase itself; for example, an Amoeba (compare Fig.
But Goethe could not accept the notion that man, who in all other corporeal respects was clearly only a mammal of higher development, should lack this mid jawbone.
Embryo of a mammal or bird, in which the five brain-bladders have just commenced to develop.
Perhaps the most interesting mammal of Brazil is the manati, or sea-cow (Manatus americanus), which inhabits the lower Amazon and sometimes reaches a length of 15 to 20 ft.
After the actual mounting of a mammal is finished, the specimen should be put aside in a separate room, away from the dust, and allowed to stand for from three or four weeks to three or four months, according to its size.
The fundamental principles to be observed in skinning a large mammal are, in general, precisely the same as those which govern the same process in small mammals, and which have been recorded in detail in the preceding chapter.
In beginning the preparation of small mammal groups (for a museum) the following hints may be of service: It is not necessary that a small group should be designed and sketched out in advance.
In conclusion, do not expect that your firstmammal is going to be an overpowering success.
A naturally handsome mammal head which has been skilfully mounted is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
Some of the worst mammal skins I ever saw were made by a professor of natural history, who actually managed to do nearly everything as it should not have been done.
Every mammal taxidermist must learn how to carve wooden bones, and the quicker he becomes expert at it, the better.
It therefore behooves themammal taxidermist to become a thorough expert in softening dry skins of all kinds and sizes, and bringing them into mountable condition.
If you can not have a real skull with genuine teeth in it, for whatever mammal you are mounting, no one has any right to require that it be mounted with open mouth, unless the head is to go on a rug instead of a scientific specimen.
In obtaining casts of mammal heads, legs, or other parts, or casts of fishes and reptiles, it is the method par excellence.
No bird or butterfly yet flits from tree to tree; no mammal rears its young in the shelter of the ferns.
The next level of mammal life, the highest level that it attains in Australia (apart from recent invasions), is the Marsupial.
But the divergence of nearly all the lines of our mammal world from those patriarchal types is admirably clear.
We pass to the clearer and far more important story of life on land, pursuing the fish through its continuous adaptations to new conditions until, throwing out side-branches as it progresses, it reaches the height of bird and mammal life.
The difficulty is that we know of no mammal of which both parents suckle the young, and some authorities think that the breasts have been transferred to the male by a kind of embryonic muddle.
Thus the four-chambered heart of the bird andmammal is not a sudden and inexplicable development.
For the present all we can say is that in the earliest spread of the patriarchal mammal race one branch adopted arboreal life, and evolved in the direction of the femurs and the apes.
In some of the excellent "restorations" of Mesozoic life which are found in recent illustrated literature the early mammal is represented with an external appearance like that of the Duckbill.
Were they a progressive offshoot from the Mesozoic Marsupials, or Monotremes, or do they represent a separate stock from the primitive half-reptile and half-mammal family?
In an earlier chapter I hinted that the bird and the mammal may have been the supreme outcomes of the series of disturbances which closed the Primary Epoch and devastated its primitive population.
Holding his breath until the great mammal turned broadside to him, Dick waited heedless of Sandy’s repeated cries for him to wait until he had joined him.
The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.
A gigantic extinct herbivorousmammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow.
Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.
If the foundation principles of stock-breeding are correct, then it is impossible to maintain any large-mammal species at its zenith of size, strength and virility by continuous breeding of the young and immature males.
Every intelligent person knows that in the United States the deadly shot-gun is rapidly exterminating every bird and every small mammal that is classed as "game," and which legally may be killed, even during two months of the twelve.
Any wild bird or mammal species can be exterminated by commercial interests in twenty years time, or less.
I think that there is not a single wild mammal or bird species now living that can not, or does not, quickly recognize protection, and take advantage of it.
Now, there is no other climatic condition that is so hard for a wild bird or mammal to withstand as rain at the freezing point, and a mantle of ice or frozen snow over all supplies of food.
There is no good reason why a mammal that is not in any one of the families regularly eaten by man should be classed as a game animal.
Every species of bird, mammal or fish that is threatened with extermination should be given a close season of from five to ten years.
There is no wild mammal that responds to protection more quickly than the gray squirrel.
Man is a mammal and a mammal must get his own children for himself.
It is easy enough to get almost any mammal into a condition of utter hunger, but it is practically impossible to have the desire for food of the same strength day after day.
One might search a long time, possibly, for anothermammal whose curve of error in a simple discrimination test would fall as gradually as that of the dancer.
Similar "Paps" are common in other parts of Britain, and there is little doubt that mam, the Welsh for a gently rising hill, has an intimate relation to mammalor teat.
In noting this we should remember that the male elephant is the only large mammal the males of which it has proved safe to use in the ordinary work of life.
Probably no other wild mammal exhibits such differences in the mental features as does this highly intellectual creature.
No other mammal below man shows anything like the same constructive skill in the contrivance of its habitations, or is able so to modify its habits of building to meet the varied needs of its life.
The fact is, that with any large mammal the domestication of the species tends to bring about the destruction of the remaining wild forms.
The cry goes with the custom of defence which in this species has attained a better foundation in the sympathetic motives than in any other mammal below the level of man.
The elephant is the only large mammal which has ever acquired a serviceable addition to the body such as the trunk affords.
Under provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, it is unlawful for persons without a permit to handle, harass, or possess any marine mammal.
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Their rudimentary form was that of the transient affection of a female bird ormammal for its young.
As an optical instrument, the eye had well-nigh reached extreme perfection in many a bird and mammal ages before man's beginnings; and the essential features of the human hand existed already in the hands of Miocene apes.
The discovery of the real origin of man by evolution from a long series of mammal ancestors threw light on his place in nature in every respect, as Huxley had already shown in his excellent lectures of 1863.
However, many of them foolishly lay great stress on experiments in heredity which prove nothing; for instance, the fact that the offspring of a mammal that has had its tail cut off do not inherit the feature.
Man is a purely natural being, a placental mammal of the order of primates.
It almost seems as if nature hesitated whether to produce the mammal from the reptile or from the amphibian, as the mammalbears marks of both in its anatomy, and which was the parent stem is still a question.
But in the middle Tertiary the mammal brain began suddenly to enlarge, so that in our time the brain of the horse is more than eight times the size of the brain of his progenitor, the dinoceras of Eocene times.
Among the former, the amphibian follows the fish, the reptile follows the amphibian, the mammal follows the reptile, and non-placental mammals are followed by the placental.
The fate of every species of mammal in our time seems to have been in the keeping of a single form in early Tertiary times.
Again Rang out his battle-yell: "I'll spread That mammal on a slice of bread!
Then rose his battle-cry: "I'll spread That mammal on a slice of bread!
Illustration: Polar bear, a fur-bearing mammalwhich is rapidly being exterminated.
If we should cut open the heart of a mammal down the midline, we could divide it into a right and a left side, each of which would have no internal connection with the other.
Hence we may assume that this small and probably insectivorousmammal belonged to the stem-group of the Promammals.
The latter science teaches us that the whole Mammal class divides into three main groups or sub-classes, which correspond to three successive phylogenetic stages.
At various points of the skin we have cutaneous muscles which we never use--remnants of a strongly-developed cutaneous muscle in our lower mammal ancestors.
Lower jaw of a Primitive Mammalor Promammal (Dromatherium silvestre) from the North American Triassic.
All the mammal remains that we have from this section belong to the lower promammals and marsupials; among these were most certainly the ancestors of the human race.
However different the views of zoologists may have been as to this position in detail, and as to his relations to the apes, no scientist has ever doubted that man is a true mammal in his whole organisation and development.
The mammal ovary is originally a very simple oval body (Figure 2.
On the other hand, the mammalline has descended from the group of the Sauromammalia, a different branch of the Proreptilia.
Connected with this is the development of the three bones of the mammal ear from the first two gill-arches; the hammer and anvil are formed from the first, the stirrup from the upper end of the second, gill-arch.
It is the degenerate remainder of the pointed, freely moving, and more advanced mammal ear, the muscles of which we still have, but cannot work them.
Each salp of the aggregate form contains within it an embryo receiving nutrition from the mother by a connection similar to the placenta by which the embryo of a mammal receives nourishment from the blood of the mother.
