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James F. Comstock, Albert C. Raymond; 1870, Mores Chandler, John L. ()1 instead, jAverack Age of Animals. The average age of cats is 15 years; of squirrels and : hares 7 or 8 years; of rabbits. 7; a bear rarely exceeds 20 years ; a fox 14 to 10; lions arc long lived, the one known by the ] name of Poinpcy living to the age of 70 , years, elephants have been known, it is as- 1 serted to live to the groat age of 400 years. When Alexander the Great had conquered Porus. King of India, he took a great elephant which had fought very valiantly for I the king, aud named hi in Ajax, dedicated ; him to the sun. and let him go with this inscription: *, Alexander, the son of Jupiter, dedicated Ajax to the nun. The elephant was found with this inscription 301» | years after. Pigs have been known to live i to the age of 20, and the rhinoceros to 20; a horse has been known to live to the age of G2, but average 25 to 30; camels some- j times live to the age of WO; stags are very | long lived ; sheep seldom exceed the age of 10; cows live about 15 years and are then killed for beef. Cuvier considsiders it probable that whales sometimes live one thousand years ; the dolphin and porpoise attain the age of 30; an eagle died at ^ ion
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East Hampton, Connecticut, US
Sat, Mar 25, 1871
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