Capitolo 92
out Australia; and anchor, what is at least equally extraordinary, anybody of
the opossumses are found the contra_ of _per in same Australia. They is, in
fact, the tallest and the better product of the old escort of dying marsupial,
it especially evolved in the great continents through the fierce competition
of the tallest mammals that are developed then on every side of them.
Therefore, being later in point of time that the separation, they was able
any more arrive above to Australia that the elephants and tigers and
rhinos were able. They is the last offer for the life of the marsupial run
in his/her struggle without hope against mammalian cousins and more developed his.
In Europe and Asia the opossumses strongly lived on, despite
the competition, during the whole one some period of Eocene sides from side with
hog-how creatures not yet perfectly porky, with indefinite animals,
tapir of half equine mean, and with forms without horns of buck and antelopes,
lacking, till now, with the first rudiment to bud ramifications. But in
the following age that they seems to disappear from the oriental continent,
although in the westerner, thanks to them hand-as feet, thumb of opposable,
and the tree-obsessive life, them anchor they drag out a precarious existence in
many form from Virginia to Kilos, and from Brazil in California. It is
also, value whether to notice that while the kangaroos and other
Australian marsupials are proverbially the a lot of fools of mammals,
the opossumses, on the contrary one they are known well that accurate
observatories of the animal psychology, the negroes of the plantation, to be a lot the
cleverest, cunningest and slyest of American quadrupeds. In the fierce one
struggle for the life of the American and crowded lowlands, the opossum was
absolutely forced to acquire a certain amount of the Yankee cleverness, or
other to be improved away the face of the earth by the acute competition of
the mammals of pouchless.
On per diem, then when Heads Kitchen and Mr. Joseph Banks, disembarking for
the first time on the coast of Southern and New Wales, saw an animal with shortly