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"Insectivore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... greatest leap anywhere made by Nature in her brain work. For the two halves of the brain being once thus knit together, the progress of cerebral complexity is traceable through a complete series of steps from the lowest Rodent, or Insectivore, to Man; and that complexity consists, chiefly, in the disproportionate development of the cerebral hemispheres and of the cerebellum, but especially of the former, in respect to the ...
— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley
... interesting species. Although it is an Insectivore, and a relative of the tiny shrews which live in holes and under logs, it has squirrel-like habits and in appearance is like a squirrel to which it is totally unrelated. Instead of the thinly haired mouselike tails of the ordinary shrews the tupaias have developed long bushy tails ...
— Camps and Trails in China - A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China • Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews |
Words linked to "Insectivore" : fauna, Potamogale velox, brute, Erinaceus europeaeus, potamogale, mole, tenrec, animal, hedgehog, insectivorous, tendrac, placental mammal, otter shrew, Insectivora, beast, shrew, eutherian, Erinaceus europaeus, animate being |
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