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;& 8.6 New World Opossum
z& a.4 Virginia Opassum feigning death, i.t.
“playing possum ”
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$4 8-11 Northwestern Marsupial mole
$a 8-12 Banded Ant-eater
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l&f 8-13 Red-necked Wallaby
&i 8-14 Brush-tailed Rat Kangaroo
$1 a-15 Musky Rat Kangaroo
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z& a.16 Long-nosed Bandicot
Family Vombatidae
Wombats (pdd 8-18)
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:Ji 8.18 Great Glider
& 8-20 Pygmy Flying Phalanger
;& 8.22 Koala
b& 8-21 Short-headed Flying Phalanger
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;&EC% Big-eared bat (Plecotus).(After American MammarIs, by W.J.Hamilton, McGraw-Hill Book Company.)
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;ace of Vampire Bat
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,?,dd 8-25 Flying lemur
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z& a-28 Skeleton of three-toed sloth, Bradypus. (After Blainville.)
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L-I- __g& 8-27 Cleat ant-cater, Myrmecophaga, from life.
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$A 8% Haiiy armadillo, Dasypus. (From photographs.)
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i& 8.29 - Order Pholidota, Family Manidae. Manis. The pangolins (scaly ant-eaters) and the
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Aardwark (Order Tubulidentata) are often called the Old World edentates but are probably better separated
from armadillos, ant-eaters and sloths and, of course,
from each other. The tropical pangolins (e.g. M.javanica
above) are remarkably protected by an over-lapping armcur
and have developed a remark-able pedal specialisation that
allows the possession OF powerful digging claws without
undue inter-ference with walking (set convergence illustated
in the tail may be prehensile (e.g. in M. longicaudata)and contain as many as 50 vertebrae, the largest number
of any mammal (cf. four retained by Man). Some pangolins
are arboreal . (From photographs and B.M.(N.H.) skins.)
& S-SO Munis : Defensive mechanism.(From photograph by Lang.)
?dii 8-31 African Pangolin
Ranged, and on’ly’ the young have hairs
behind the tail.
;lh 8-32 Long-tailed l’angoh
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Order Rodentia
Suborder 1. Sciuromorpha
Suborder 2. Myomorpha
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