Identifier: americananimallideming (find matches)
Title: American animal life
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Deming, Therese O. (Therese Osterheld), b. 1874 Deming, Edwin Willard, 1860-1942, ill
Subjects: Zoology Animals
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes company
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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y everybody and everything. In Wyoming he is called the skunk bear; and in Washington, Indians call him the mountain devil. lie is a member of the weasel family; he never risks his life, but always manages to get a good meal, and just slinks about through the forest, robbing traps, and getting at the trappersstores. He steals not only from man hunters, but from animal hunters as well. Many animalshide or bury what food they can for winter use, but the wicked wolverine finds it and eatsall he can, then destroys what he cannot eat, so no other animal can get it. This fellow is so sly and clever that he springs traps and eats the bait without so much ashurtino- a hair. Trappers have found that the only way to trap him is to bury the trapsdeep down under the snow and smooth over the place as if they were hiding food fromhim. Then he will dig, to steal from the cache, and so get caught in the trap. Whena trapper gets a wolverine, he is very happy and seems to gloat more over capturing this
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