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Identifier: ForeststreamXXIX (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ing hisarticle in that work, says, In the Manatee, then, we havean animal of great size, of gentle disposition and appar-ently of rapid growth, which lives in places readily ac-cessible to man, and is easily captured, and which furn-ishes meat which is not inferior, oil which is remarkablyfine, and leather which possesses great toughness. Fromthese considerations it would seem evident that, with theproper protection, it would furnish no small revenue tothe people in those portions of our country which it in-habits, for centuries to come. (p. 128). Finally, to those interested in the progress of science inFlorida, I should say that we have not as yet by anymeans a complete history of this animal, and accuratereports upon the following subjects are very much to bedesired; (1), an accurate observation giving all the cir-cumstances of a Manatee voluntarily coming ashore to feedor for any other purpose; (2), the manner of coition, theperiod of gestation, the mode of delivery, the number of
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GROUP OF SOUTH AMERICAN MANATEES.Adapted from a drawing by Henry W. Elliott from the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U. S. Army. Professor Garrod in alluding to these says of them that,These pads have the power of transversely approachingtowards and receding from one another simultaneously(see figs. B & C). When the animal is on the point ofseizing (say) a leaf of lettuce, the pads are diverged trans-versely in such a way as to make a median gap of con-siderable breadth. Directly the leaf is within the graspthe lip-pads are approximated, the leaf is firmly seizedbetween their contiguous bristly surfaces, and then drawninward by a backward movement of the lower margin ofthe lip as a whole. It is said that Manatees have the power of carryingtheir young about within the grasp of their forelimb orlimbs, and that their appearance at these times has givenrise to the fabulous mermaid of nursery tale renown, butso far as the writer is concerned, if

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