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;II$ 8.5 Virginia Opossum

with young

;& 8.6 New World Opossum

z& a.4 Virginia Opassum feigning death, i.t.

“playing possum ”

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?,dl8-9 Tasmanian Wolf

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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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