Strange stories of the animal world : A book of curious contributions to natural history / by John Timbs.
- John Timbs
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Strange stories of the animal world : A book of curious contributions to natural history / by John Timbs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![INTr. P)laine tells us of a gentleman wlio liad three horses udiich died at the ages of thirty-five, thirty-seven, and thirty-nine. j\Ir. Cully mentions one that received a hall in his neck at the battle of Presto]i, in 1715, and which was extracted at his death in 1758, and in his sixt3^-second year.” [The Horse: Library of Useful Knoivledye.) In the Manchester Xatural History Society’s Museum are preserved the stuffed skin of the head and the skull of a horse who woiPed all his life on the towing-path of the Manchester canals, and died in 1822, in his sixty-second year. “ On the death of Lady Penrh^ui, in 1816, six of her horses had pensions assigned to them; each 45/. a-year. Five of them died at the respective ages of twenty^-eight, twenty-nine, and thirty-one years. The last died at the age of thirty-four years; the executors having paid on the pension of this horse 810/.” “ The Ass,” sa}s Bacon, “ lives commonly to the age of the horse ; hut the mule outlives them both.” The Camel, according to Marplett’s Green Forest, 1567, sometimes reaches the age of one hundred. A camel kept in the Jardin des Plantes, is supposed to have been fifty years old at the time of his death. The Llama, nearly allied to the Camel, lives more than fifteen years. Tlie Elk, which does not reach his full growth till his fourteenth year, probably, attains a great age, as the Indians believe they are to enjoy a long life if they frecj[uently dream of tfiis animal. I he Stag is believed hy modern naturalists not to attain years: a writer in Frasers Magazine, in 1857, says: “ Judging from our own experience, from twenty to thirty 3'ears, or about that number, form the average duration of a Stag’s natural life. After ten years have passed over the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28127420_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
