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Seals are often regarded as belonging to this order, but their relation to the rest of the carnivores is very doubtful. Many of their characters are suggestive of Arctoidea, but it is an open question if their ancestors were bear or otter-like animals which took to an aquatic life, or whether they may not have had a long and independent descent.
Among the Mammalia were five squirrels,and two tigercats the Gymnurus Rafesii, which looks like a cross between a pig and a polecat, and the Cynogale Bennetti a rare, otter-like animal, with very broad muzzle clothed with long bristles.
The various branches of the Carnivore family are already roughly represented, but it is an age of close relationships and generalised characters. In the Miocene we find the various groups diverging still further from each other and from the extinct stocks. Definite wolves and foxes abound in America, and the bear, civet, and hyaena are represented in Europe, together with vague otter-like forms.
His exceptional swimming-powers now served him well, for his otter-like rapidity of action enabled him to avoid the crushing billows either by diving through them at the right moment, or holding back until they fell, and left him only the mad swirling foam to contend with.
The peculiar, otter-like form of these animals, and the buoyancy given to them by their long, floating hair, endow them with great facility for swimming; while the small compass into which they will pack in a canoe or skiff makes them very useful companions to the sportsman whose propensities are for paddling about "in the melancholy marshes."
"I don't ask no chaps to dance wi' I," she announced loftily. "Faëther's just comen' to see you, Da Boase." She wriggled her sleek little otter-like head under his arm and slipped past him as she spoke. Then: "Like to see the pigs?" she asked Ishmael carelessly. "Da ringed 'en the marnen'." "Don't mind if I do," answered Ishmael, still scraping the gravel.
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