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Credit: Log-book of a fisherman and zoologist / by Frank Buckland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![footliolcl upon the slippery ice. I could not, of course, get itny notion of the tracks of the lion, tiger, &c., as they ■were in their dens, where there was no snow. The track of the Llama is very curious; the foot is somewhat camel- like, and the animal pushes the snow in front of him at every footstep. Will anybody tell me why the Llama uses its terrible power of spitting as a means of defence ? Snakes are said to have the power of spitting, but they never do anything of the kind. The track of the emu is exceedingly interesting; it re- minded me exactly of the representation of the celebrated Ornithichnites, or bird-footsteps, figured in my father's Bridgewater Treatise;'^ the emu also drags his foot- steps, so that there is a regular line upon the snow, con- necting one footstep with the other. Of all the animals in the Gardens, the Seals appeared mostly to enjoy the cold weather. The sea-bear was quite by himself, on the middle of his pond, not in it, for it was frozen over. He scanned the horizon two or three times with an anxious look, as though wondering where Tierra-del-Fuego was, and possibly wishing he was back again at home among his brother sea-bears, although he could not possibly have a kinder friend or nurse than M. Le Compte. There was a beautiful piece of undis- turbed snow close by, so I requested Le Compte to march Mr. Sea-bear over it. The apparently clumsy beast took the low iron fence like a bird, and the track he made was very curious. This animal has two modes of pro- gression ; the one where he puts forward alternately his great Bo]? Ridley-like fore flippers, and pulls his hinder flippers up to them with a jerk, somewhat like the action D 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21930648_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
