Curious Creatures in Zoology
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Ashton John. Curious Creatures in Zoology
CURIOUS CREATURES
Amazons
Pygmies
Giants
Early Men
Wild Men
Hairy Men
The Ouran Outan
Satyrs
The Sphynx
Apes
Animal Lore
The Manticora
The Lamia
The Centaur
The Gorgon
The Unicorn
The Rhinoceros
The Gulo
The Bear
The Fox
The Wolf
Were-Wolves
The Antelope
The Horse
The Mimick Dog
The Cat
The Lion
The Leontophonus – The Pegasus – The Crocotta
The Leucrocotta – The Eale – Cattle Feeding Backwards
Animal Medicine
The Su
The Lamb-Tree
The Chimæra
The Harpy and Siren
The Barnacle Goose
Remarkable Egg
Moon Woman
The Griffin
The Phœnix
The Swallow
The Martlet, and Footless Birds
Snow Birds
The Swan
The Alle, Alle
The Hoopoe and Lapwing
The Ostrich
The Halcyon
The Pelican
The Trochilus
Woolly Hens
Two-Headed Wild Geese
Four-Footed Duck
Fish
“The Sea-Mouse
“The Sea-Hare
The Sea-Pig
The Walrus
The Ziphius
“The Saw Fish
The Orca
The Dolphin
The Narwhal,
The Swamfisck
“The Sahab
“The Circhos
The Remora
The Dog-fish and Ray
The Sea Dragon
The Sting Ray
Senses of Fishes
Zoophytes
“Sponges
The Kraken
Crayfish and Crabs
The Sea-Serpent
Serpents
The Crocodile
The Basilisk and Cockatrice
The Salamander
The Toad
The Leech
The Scorpion
The Ant
The Bee
The Hornet
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Let us commence our researches into curious Zoology with the noblest of created beings, Man; and, if we may believe Darwin, he must have gone through many phases, and gradual mutations, before he arrived at his present proud position of Master and Conqueror of the World.
This philosopher does not assign a high place in the animal creation to proud man’s protogenitor, and we ought almost to feel thankful to him for not going further back. He begins with man as an Ascidian, which is the lowest form of anything of a vertebrate character, with which we are acquainted; and he says thus, in his “Descent of Man”: —
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