PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I HOW THE GLOBE WAS STOCKED WITH LIFE
CHAPTER II THE SEA A VAST AQUARIUM
CHAPTER III A CHAPTER OF FOUNDATIONS THE NATURAL BASIS OF CLASSIFICATION
CHAPTER IV THE HUMBLEST OF ANIMALS SPONGES
CHAPTER V FLOWERS OF THE SEA JELLYFISHES, NAMESAKES OF THE FABLED MEDUSA
CHAPTER VI UNINVITED GUESTS FLATWORMS, FLUKES AND TAPEWORMS
CHAPTER VII DWELLERS BETWEEN TIDE MARKS THE COLONIAL MOSS ANIMALS
CHAPTER VIII BUILDERS OF THE PEARLY SHELLS
CHAPTER IX BUILDERS OF THE PEARLY SHELLS Continued MUSSELS, SCALLOPS AND CHITONS
CHAPTER X ANIMALS WITH JOINTED FRAMES
CHAPTER XI FROM BUTTERFLIES TO BEETLES AND BEES
CHAPTER XII AT THE DOORWAY OF THE "UPPER CLASSES" PRIME SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NOTOCHORD
CHAPTER XIII FISHES THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE WATERS
CHAPTER XIV SHARKS THE TIGERS OF THE SEA
CHAPTER XV THE FEARFUL DEVILFISH AND OTHER RAYS
CHAPTER XVI BONY FISHES TELEOSTOMI
CHAPTER XVII MODERN FISHES TELEOSTEI
CHAPTER XVIII AMPHIBIANS A CONNECTING LINK
CHAPTER XIX AMPHIBIANS Continued FROGS, TOADS AND TADPOLES
CHAPTER XX REPTILES MONARCHS OF THE MESOZOIC WORLD
CHAPTER XXI SERPENTS, GOOD AND BAD
CHAPTER XXII BIRDS KINGS OF THE AIR
CHAPTER XXIII SOME NOTABLE WATER BIRDS
CHAPTER XXIV VULTURES, FALCONS AND GAME BIRDS
CHAPTER XXV FROM GULLS TO KINGFISHERS
CHAPTER XXVI PASSERINE BIRDS
CHAPTER XXVII THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD SOME PRIMITIVE TYPES
CHAPTER XXVIII THE GNAWERS
CHAPTER XXIX MAMMALS OF THE SEA
CHAPTER XXX THE WORLD'S HERDS AND FLOCKS
CHAPTER XXXI THE WORLD'S HERDS AND FLOCKS Continued CAMELS, DEER, GIRAFFES AND PRONGHORNS
CHAPTER XXXII SOME SUPREMELY USEFUL ANIMALS
CHAPTER XXXIII BEASTS OF PREY THE CARNIVORA
CHAPTER XXXIV BEASTS OF PREY Continued
CHAPTER XXXV INSECTIVORA HEDGEHOGS, MOLES AND SHREWS
CHAPTER XXXVI THE BATS WING-HANDED MAMMALS
CHAPTER XXXVII MAN'S HUMBLE COUSINS
Title: Zoology: The Science of Animal Life
Popular Science Library, Volume XII (of 16), P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1922
Author: Ernest Ingersoll
Language: English
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| Photo, American Museum of Natural History |
| Giraffes in their native African haunts |
