Mammals Archives:
In early spring the European male hares can be seen doing all kinds of strange antics —leaping in the air, tumbling about on the ground, and fighting among themselves. From the description “as mad as a March hare” it is obvious that this behaviour is customary at the beginning of the hare’s mating season. Hares [...]
Capybaras are the largest living rodents. When they are full grown they are about three feet long and weigh as much as one hundred pounds. They look like very large guinea pigs and are indeed closely related to them. Capybaras live in Panama and South America. They are almost always found near streams or rivers. [...]
Three are two kinds of tree sloths, the two- toed and the three-toed. Both are found in Central and South America. They were given the name sloth because of their very slow, sluggish movements. Unless they are disturbed, sloths spend three-quarters of the day sleeping. Normally they sleep hanging from the branch of a tree, [...]
Quite different from the uakari is the capuchin monkey, which, of the many New World kinds, is perhaps the most common, most captured, and most captivating to human audiences. The capuchin is also the most intelligent of the platyrrhini, with a brain that is highly developed and large in proportion to the size of the [...]
A Monkey that blushes when it is angry is the uakari, which also enjoys the distinction of being the only one of the New World monkeys to possess a short tail, a. feature fairly common in the Old World monkeys. The uakari is a cat-sized monkey with a well-developed brain and superior intelligence. Its favoured [...]