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r! I ting it for a level country. Hy reason of iU peculiar one-sided development the gyascutus is however adapted for living nt I on mountains and hills. It can walk withss | ease on the side of a steep slop**, where If | even n goat would have a precarious foothold. The animalV strange structure, un*re j fortunately, is in one respect a great dis-r | advantage. While it can travel around a hill from right to left w ith the greatestik1.ease it cannot retract it steps. So long asits left -id* is towards thlt; hill the crea-t.ure stands as firmly as a tree, hut if it isobliged to turn the other way its footingis h*t immediately ami it rolls helplesslyto the liottom of the Iojh*. Hunters ofthe gyaseutus,whose I hi was held in high:*r 1. idf-rt (esteem, used tt avail themselves of thi« | fact to capture tin* animal It was urn dess to pursue a gyascutus on its chosen path,as the animal's locomotive arrangementsl,rtdi.! gav« it exceptional speed. The hunters, therefore,adopted thu artifice of travelingaround tin hill in a direction contrary tothat pursued hy tlu* animal and, meetingit fan* tn fare, had no diflk*tift\ Inrina if.\
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Dunkirk Evening Observer
Dunkirk, New York, US
Fri, Mar 02, 1883
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