Identifier: naturalhistoryo00tenn (find matches)
Title: Natural history of animals;
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877 Tenney, Abby Amy Gove, 1836-
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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is about three feet long, of a dark eolor, and is verypowerful and ferocious when attacked. It is verytroublesome to sable hunters, breaking down theirwooden traps, and eating the bait and game. It is soshrewd that it scarcely ever enters the trap, and henceis not often caught.
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Fig. 51.—American Otter. NAT. HIST. AN.— 3 34 VERTEBRATES : MAMMALS. Otters live in and about the water, and feed uponfish. They are sportive in their disposition, and amusethemselves by sliding down hill. Selecting a steepbank of a river, they slide head foremost into thewater, and repeat the operation many times, appa-rently with delight. Otters are three or four feet longfrom the nose to the tip of the tail, the color darkbrown, and the fur is of two kinds, one short, fine, andthick, the other long, coarse, and scattered. Whentaken young, Otters are easily tamed, and become sofamiliar that they will lie in the lap like a cat. Skunks are found only inAmerica, and are notorious on ac-count of their disagreeable odor.They are a foot and a half longto the tail, and the color is blackand white. They live in burrows,and seek their food at night, eat-ing beetles and other small in-sects, and eggs. Since their foodconsists so largely of insects, theyare useful to the farmer. Their fur

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