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The windpipe is situated in front of the oesophagus in all animals that have a windpipe, and all animals have one that are furnished with lungs.
Further, some animals are saw-toothed, such as the lion, the pard, and the dog; and some have teeth that do not interlock but have flat opposing crowns, as the horse and the ox; and by 'saw-toothed' we mean such animals as interlock the sharp-pointed teeth in one jaw between the sharp-pointed ones in the other.
In some animals the mouth opens wide, as is the case with the dog, the lion, and with all the saw-toothed animals; other animals have small mouths, as man; and others have mouths of medium capacity, as the pig and his congeners.
classics.mit.edu /Aristotle/history_anim.mb.txt   (13897 words)

  
 HISTORY OF ANIMALS
Animals that are furnished equally with teeth in both jaws have one stomach; as man, the pig, the dog, the bear, the lion, the wolf.
In the blooded animals some males are altogether devoid of testicles, and some have the organ but situated internally; and of those males that have the organ internally situated, some have it close to the loin in the neighbourhood of the kidney and others close to the belly.
The males of oviparous animals, whether biped or quadruped, are in all cases furnished with testicles close to the loin underneath the midriff.
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 HISTORY OF ANIMALS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
OF the parts of animals some are simple: to wit, all such as divide into parts uniform with themselves, as flesh into flesh; others are composite, such as divide into parts not uniform with themselves, as, for instance, the hand does not divide into hands nor the face into faces.
Every animal is supplied with moisture, and, if the animal be deprived of the same by natural causes or artificial means, death ensues: further, every animal has another part in which the moisture is contained.
With all animals that are furnished with these parts, the parts are similarly situated, and with the exception of man, the heart is in the middle; in man, however, as has been observed, the heart is placed a little to the left-hand side.
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 Animals in Space
The section containing the animals was recovered safely from the upper atmosphere by parachute.
Launched in the nose cone, the two animals were carried to a 300-mile altitude, and both were recovered unharmed.
After the manned lunar landing of Apollo 11, the role of animals was limited to the status of "biological payload." The range of species broadened to include rabbits, turtles, insects, spiders, fish, jellyfish, amoebae, and algae.
history.nasa.gov /animals.html   (3604 words)

  
 History of Animals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History of Animals (or "Historia Animalium", or "On the History of Animals") is a zoological natural history text by Aristotle.
Hence, it has been claimed that the book was sketched during Aristotle's stay in Lesbos, around 343 B.C., for further investigation.
 This history of science article is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Animals   (171 words)

  
 The Internet Classics Archive | The History of Animals by Aristotle
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