Thus, in woodpeckers it is hard and strong, as also in crows and birds
of crowlike habit, while in the smaller escandinavian escorts birds it is delicate, so as to
be of use in collecting seeds and picking up minute animals. In such
birds, again, escandinavian escorts as eat herbage, and such as live about marshes-those,
for example, that swim escandinavian escorts and have webbed feet-the bill is broad, or
adapted in some other way to escandinavian escorts the mode of life. For a broad bill
enables a bird to dig into the ground with ease, just as, among
quadrupeds, does the broad escandinavian escorts snout of the pig, an animal which, like the
birds in question, lives on roots. Moreover, in these root-eating
birds and in some others of escandinavian escorts like habits of life, the tips of the
bill end in hard points, which gives them additional facility in
dealing with herbaceous food.
The several parts which are set on the head have now, pretty
nearly all, been considered. In man, however, the part which escandinavian escorts lies
between the head and the neck is called the face, this name,
(prosopon) being, it escandinavian escorts would escandinavian escorts seem, derived from the function of the
part. For as man is the only animal that stands erect, he escandinavian escorts is also
the only one that looks directly in front (proso) and the only escandinavian escorts one
whose voice is emitted in that direction.
2
We have now to treat of escandinavian escorts horns; for these also, when present, are
appendages of the head. They exist in none but viviparous animals;
escandinavian escorts though in some ovipara certain parts are metaphorically spoken of as
horns, in virtue of a certain resemblance. To none of such parts,
however, does the proper office of a horn belong; for they are never
used, as are the horns of vivipara, for purposes which require
escandinavian escorts strength, whether it be in self-protection or in offensive strife.
So also no polydactylous animal is furnished with horns. For horns are
defensive escandinavian escorts weapons, and these polydactylous animals possess
other means
of security. For to some of them nature has given claws, to others
teeth escandinavian escorts suited for combat, and to the rest some other adequate defensive
appliance. There are horns, however, in
most of the cloven-hoofed
animals, escandinavian escorts and in escandinavian escorts some of those that have a solid hoof, serving them
as an offensive weapon, and in some cases also as a defensive one.
There are escandinavian escorts horns also in all animals that have not been provided by
nature with some other means of security; escandinavian escorts such means, for instance, escandinavian escorts as
speed, which has been given to horses; or great size, as in camels;
for escandinavian escorts excessive bulk, such as has been given