Brehm's Life of animals - a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools (1895) (20386691326)

Title: Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools
Identifier: brehmslifeofanim00breh (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884; PechuLoesche, Eduard, 1840-1913; Haacke, Wilhelm, 1855-1912; Schmidtlein, Richard
Subjects: Mammals; Animal behavior
Publisher: Chicago : Marquis
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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THE LABIATED OR SLOTH BEAR. One of the most peculiar forms of the Bear family is this animal, which the artist has appropriately pic- tured in company with the wild Sheep of the Himalayan region. The long, flexible, protruding lip, which gives the animal its name of Lahiated. or Lipped Bear, is the most striking feature of the animal, giving it a comical appearance. Its name of Sloth Bear comes from certain superficial resemblances to the Sloth including its long claws, and also because of its slow and clumsy movements. (Mclursiis labiatus.) (261)