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Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)

Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 346

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shoulder is about three feet six inches. The Guanaco lives in herds varying in number from ten to thirty or forty, but is some- times seen in flocks of much greater numbers, resembling sheep, not only in their gregarious habits, but in the implicit obedience with which they rely upon their leader.… … but like many creatures of similar disposition, is possessed with so strong a feeling of curiosity that it can be attracted towards the hunter if he lies down on the ground and kicks his feet in the air. Even the reports of his rifle do not frighten the animals, who, says Darwin, consider them as…

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