Excerpt from Trespassers Showing How the Inhabitants of Earth, Air, and Water Are Enabled to Trespass on Domains Not Their Own

In almost every large group of animal life there is a curious tendency towards usurping the domain which is usually occupied by other groups.

Taking, for example, the Fishes as typical occupiers of the water, we find that there are various groups of Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Insects, etc., which live almost as much in the water as do the Fishes themselves. Such, for example, are the Whales and Dolphins among the Mammalia, the Penguins among the Birds, the Turtles, Water Snakes and Newts among the Reptiles, and the Water Beetles among the Insects.

Then, we have the Bats as examples of mammalia which trespass on the domain of the birds while the Flying Monkey or Colugo, the Flying Squirrels of the Old World, and the Flying Phalangists of Australasia, are examples of partial Trespassers in the same direction.

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