Smyrna Times

Nondescript Animals.

The west African water shrew has the fur and shape of an otter, a tail like an eel and the habits of an aquatic insect feeder.

The panda is a very pretty, beautifully furred carnivorous creature found in the forests of the eastern Himalayas. It is sometimes called the "bear cat." Its fur is a rich red chestnut above and a jet black below, the tail long and ringed like a raccoon's, and its habits rather like those of a bear. It sucks up water instead of lapping it and sits up on its haunches to fight.

The binturong is a kind of Asiatic kinkajou, found in Sumatra and Java. It is the only prehensile tailed animal in the old world, a distinction which appears to have struck naturalists more than the detachment of the animal from all other forms. It has a short, blunt head, woolly, soft fur and teeth adapted for getting an honest living by almost any means. Its color is black, its gait slow, its tail very long and prehensile, its ears tufted and fringed with white.