Fish, birds, and a variety of quadrupeds are similarly treated.
Representations of quadrupedsare common; a good example, copied from Bollaert, is given in Fig.
When we speak of the vegetation and quadrupeds of Cromer Forest being pre-glacial,” says Lyell, “we merely mean that their formation preceded the era of the general submergence of the British Isles beneath the waters of the glacial sea.
It is not likely either that it had long ears, which would be inconvenient in its aquatic kind of life; and I am inclined to think that, in this respect, it resembled the Hippopotamus and other quadrupeds which frequent the water much.
The bones of the quadrupeds found in these mounds correspond with those of existing species, or species which have existed in historic times.
This volume is designed as a companion to that by Professor Bell on the (Recent Mammalia) 'British Quadrupeds and Cetacea.
With Observations on the Osteology, Natural Affinities, and probable Habits of the Megatherioid Quadrupeds in general.
Day and night he lurks among the tall rank herbage; in the morning and the evening he places himself in ambush on the border of some lake or water-course to surprise the quadrupeds which flock thither to quench their thirst.
Other authors have placed those latter quadrupeds in an order apart, under the name of "Tardigrades;" but most scientific zoologists now classify them with the Edentata, and form them into the family of Bradypes or Bradypidae.
But no female animals was offered up to God as a holocaust, although holocausts were offered of bothquadrupeds and birds.
Further, only three kinds of quadrupeds were offered in sacrifice to God, viz.
In other words, the fossil quadrupeds are treated biologically--so far as is possible in the obscurity of the past" (p.
In the Historia Animalium he takes man as a standard, and describes his external and internal parts in detail, then considers viviparous quadrupeds and compares them with man.
Oviparous quadrupeds resemble the viviparous, but they lack some organs, such as ears with an external pinna, mammæ, hair.
He finds that it is possible to reduce the two hundred species of quadrupeds which he has described to quite a small number of families "from which it is not impossible that all the rest are derived.
He notices that all viviparousquadrupeds have hair.
Quadrupeds and birds which have seldom been disturbed by man, dread him no more than do our English birds, the cows, or horses grazing in the fields.
With several domesticated quadrupeds and birds, certain coloured marks are either strongly inherited or tend to reappear after having been lost for a long time.
This was the geographer's conclusion; but Glenarvan damped his joy somewhat by remarking that the quadrupeds of the Cordilleras are never met with in such a high latitude.
But it was a time of day when both birds and quadrupeds have finished their mornings repast, and retired to the groves or fastnesses.
For it is a truth, that during the heat of the day, both birds and quadrupeds betake themselves to the secluded shades of the streams and vallies.
In birds and amphibious quadrupeds the lower lid alone has motion; and fishes and insects have no eye-lids whatsoever.
The bodies of almost all quadrupeds are covered with hair, but the head of man alone has this ornament before puberty, and that more abundantly than any other animal.
I refer to those which attach themselves, by means of hooks, or by viscous juices, to the coats of quadrupeds and the feathers of birds, and are thus transported wherever their living vehicles may chance to wander.
There are even large quadrupeds which feed almost exclusively upon insects.
This always runs parallel to the surface of the ground, and is determined by the height to which domestic quadrupeds can reach to feed upon the leaves.
We have seen, in a former chapter, that, in the United States, the domesticquadrupeds amount to more than a hundred millions, or nearly three times the number of the human population of the Union.
Fish are more affected than quadrupeds by slight and even imperceptible differences in their breeding places and feeding grounds.
It is true that nature employs birds and quadrupeds for the dissemination of vegetable and even of animal species.
Small quadrupeds were allowed to pasture in dense woods, not in thin ones; but no animal could feed in any forest without the consent of the proprietor of the soil.
With these exceptions, all this vast army of quadrupeds is fed wholly on grass, grain, pulse, and roots grown on soil reclaimed from the forest by European settlers.
Naturalists certainly have neither explored all the continents," said Cuvier, "nor do they as yet even know all the quadrupeds of those parts which have been explored.
It was some amusement to us to break in our small quadrupeds to draw my light cart; we had brought out tandem-harness; and in a short time we got up a very fair team.
In New Zealand, there are no indigenous quadrupeds at all; and there the huge moa attained to dimensions almost equalling those of the giraffe.
It consists of a complete copy of Audubon's Birds and Quadrupeds of America, in a beautiful case; and a gold box, appropriately ornamented, containing a copy of their vote of thanks to her.
Poultry and the smaller animals, together with dead bodies, are the ordinary food of jackals, but when rendered bold by hanger, they will occasionally attack the larger quadrupeds and even man.
The quadrupeds of this, the "Pliocene" formation, are thus described by Professor Owen in his "History of British Fossil Mammals.
It is said to attack men and quadrupeds whilst bathing or crossing the rivers, and to be more fierce and voracious then the other species of this sub-family.
Because human beings walk erect, and not on all fours, they are liable to suffer from various ailments of pregnancy that quadrupeds escape.
All mammals suffer in giving birth to their young, though with quadrupeds the period of suffering is shorter, for the upright posture of man has changed the shape of the pelvis, rendering birth somewhat more difficult.
Take the apposite instance of a number of quadrupeds incapable of climbing, supported by browsing on the leaves of trees during a dearth of other suitable food.
The remains of a tapir being found at Florence, with those of other quadrupedsusually exhibited by the Romans, was an unaccountable fact, till it was known, through Sir Stamford Raffles, that the tapir exists in Sumatra.
Very numerous instances could be added, in order to prove that the local circumstances, when skeletons of these quadrupeds are found, are not of a nature to disprove the historical origin of fossil bones.
Remarks on some Quadrupeds supposed by Naturalists to be extinct.
American author who discovered this defect in the geological doctrine, conjectures that those largequadrupeds may have migrated, like the buffalos, during the change of seasons.
On Tic Douloureux 346 Remarks on some Quadrupeds supposed by Naturalists to be extinct.
A large portion of the amphibious quadrupeds and reptiles prey partly on aquatic plants and animals, and in part on terrestrial; and a deficiency of one kind of prey causes them to have immediate recourse to the other.
It is certainly probable that when some of these quadrupeds abounded in Europe, the climate was milder than that now experienced.
In a portion of this latter period the "Pampean mud" was formed, in which the Megatherium mylodon and other extinctquadrupeds are buried.
In Australia, New Zealand, and many other parts of the southern hemisphere, where the indigenous land quadrupeds are comparatively few, and of small dimensions, the reptiles do not predominate in number or size.
In the greater part of these lake-deposits there are no signs of floods; and the expanse of water was originally so confined, that the smallest of the above-mentioned quadrupeds could have crossed, by swimming from one shore to the other.
The migration of quadrupeds from one part of the globe to another, observes Dr.
Thus in New Guinea seven species of pouched quadrupeds have been detected, and among them two singular tree-kangaroos; yet only one species of the whole seven, viz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quadrupeds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
