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[[underline]]9[[/underline]]

represented by a young specimen of [[circled]]35[[/circled]] the [[double-underline]]South American Manatee[[/double-underline]] ([[underline]]Trichechus manatus[[/underline]]). They pass their whole life in the water and prefer shallow, fresh water lakes & streams.

The [[double-underline]]Edentata[[/double-underline]] is represented by the curious lizard-like animal [[circled]]36[[/circled]] the [[double-underline]]Long-tailed Pangolin[[/double-underline]] ([[underline]]Manis macroura[[/underline]]), [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] a group of the  [[double-underline]]nine-banded Armadillo[[/double-underline]], ([[underline]]Tatusia novemcincta[[/underline]]) [[circled]]37[[/circled]] the [[double-underline]]Tamandua Anteater[[/double-underline]] ([[underline]]Myrmecophaga quadridactyla[[/underline]]) [[circled]]38[[/circled]] ^[[and by]] the [[double-underline]]Chestnut-headed Sloth[[/double-underline]] ([[underline]]Bradypus castaneiceps[[/underline]]) the most strictly arboreal and also one of the laziest of mammals.

Those animals which have a pouch in which to carry their young, the [[double-underline]]Marsupialia[[/double-underline]],

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Some of the circled numbers and some of the double-underlines seem to have been struckthrough but then the strikethrough marks were erased. I transcribed without the strike-and-erasure, for clarity.

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