Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — ANIMAL LIFE. [ARTICLE]

ANIMAL LIFE.

H nakes have the singular property ol -H* ng able to elevate the head and rethe slightest movement for many minutes at a time. ats and several other animals have se eyelid, which can be drawn over th®:eyeball, either to cleanse it or to preset it fro mi too strong a light 4jL decapitated snail kept in a moist In a few weeks grow a new :ea4l quite as serviceable and good-look-ng*s that which was taken away. Me muscles of a pig’s snout are exeedjngly powerful for their size, and enable the animal to turn up very ground with the utmost ease. both the alligator and the crocotbe tail is the most formidable alpon. One stroke, fairly delivered, l® break the legs of the strongest 4tbat finds its way about without the «tance of its eyes. A blinded bat isl avoid wires and obstructions as Jenmsiy as though it could see perfalling, as out of a tree, or otgn a steep declivity, bears will roll iam salves Into a dose resemblance to Iwje forty ball and thus escape withil! Injury. mole is not blind, as many per>aa,suppose. Its eye Is hardly larger tut a pinhead, and is carefully protect- I l from dust and dirt by meaps of ln- • lr.g hairs. parental care ever falls to the i ' »*ogle member of the Insect tri! general. She eggs of an Insect t, • ned to be hatched long after the