Identifier: allaboutanimalsf00newy (find matches)
Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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od account of itself. It has short, stubby legs and a dog-like snout. Its teeth are vety strong and sharp. A badger mother rears heryoung in a burrow, generally among the roots of trees. This is dug out bythe male badger, and serves for a living-place and store-house. When thebadger is busy burrowing you can come quite close to it, for it is so intentupon its work that it does not notice anything around it. Many people imag-ine that the badger is stupid, but in reality it is very clever, and anyone whohas attempted to trap one will agree in this. It is easily tamed, and becomesquite affectionate. The badger is not as rare as many people think. Its habitsare quiet, and it moves along so stealthily that you might be within a fewyards of one andnot know it. It is more often betrayed by its strong smellthan by any sound it will make. THE WOLVERINE. The Wolverine, or Gluttom, is found over the coldest parts of America,Northern Europe, and Siberia, and is everywhere considered a curse and a
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WOLVERINE AND STAG. THE HONEY RATEL. scourge. It is cruel and ferocious, killing many more animals than it canpossibly eat. It is hated among the trappers of North America, because itslinks after their trails and tears to pieces victims already caught in the traps.All the summer long the glutton wages war upon the beavers, stealthily glidingin upon them or dashing suddenly among a colony. But in winter the terriblecold freezes the beavers hut so hard that even the glutton cannot get into it.Its paws are very large, and make a footprint in the snow that is often mis-taken for a bear. Sometimes the glutton lies upon an overhanging branch un-til some poor deer comes along, when it springs upon its victims neck andhangs there, in spite of all its struggles, until the quarry is brought down. Should a hunter be unlucky enough to corner a glutton it will offer afierce resistance. It is said that the glutton is the most difficult animal of itssize to capture. Traps are almost useless to destr

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