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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hen there it would curl itself up andgo to sleep. This creature at times would become very angry, and use itssharp claws and chisel-like teeth. The wombat is not particular as to what it eats, but prefers lettuce andcabbage to anything else. When wild it lives in burrows of immense depth,which it digs out. They are bad animals to have near roads and walls, for ina short time they will honeycomb the earth so thoroughly as to make it verydangerous to walk upon. The natives of Australia say that when a wombatcomes to a river and wishes to get across, it does not appear to be the leastput out, but walks right into the water and so reaches the other side, and con-tinues its journey as if nothing had happened. It is easily able to defenditself from the snakes which abound in the bush, but it never seeks a quarrelwith a snake or other animal. In New Holland naturalists have found thefossil of a gigantic wombat which must have been nearly as large as arhinoceros when alive. TASMANIAN WOLF. as
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TASMANIAN WOLF (>/„ Natural Size). The Tasmanian Wolf is found in the island trom which it takes its name.It is not exactly like the wolf of India, America, and Europe, but, neverthe-less, it fills its place. It is not as fierce as the true wolf, but at the same timeit becomes a very formidable animal when urged by hunger or danger. As soon as civilized inhabitants took up their abode in Tasmania the wolfmade great inroads upon their sheep-flocks, until the colonists, in self-defence,were forced to begin a war of extermination. By degrees the Tasmanian wolfwas driven back from its former haunts, where it once reigned supreme, and itis seldom seen now outside the copses and jungles. Curiously enough, the Tasmanian wolf is found in the mountains as highup as six thousand feet, for it does not seem to suffer from cold. The homeof the Tasmanian wolf is always made among rocks, where the mother-wolf iscomparatively safe, while the cubs can sleep all day until nightfall makes itsafe fo

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