Identifier: babyhoodofwildbe00mcna (find matches)
Title: The babyhood of wild beasts
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: McNally, Georgia Maud, 1889-
Subjects: Zoology Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : George H. Doran company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ming a very formidable littlebeastie. He is able now to waddle down to thepond as fast as his short, stumpy legs will carryhim, and by clutching a half-submerged log, feaston the tender lily pads. I stroked the back of a tame baby porcupinethe other day, but I didnt feel any quills pushingthrough yet. This little fellow is three monthsold and very friendly. I gave him some greenleaves and a red crab apple which he proceeded tostuff into his funny little mouth. He sat upneatly on his haunches and holding the apple inhis little paws, gnawed it with his four yellowchisels as a baby might. His track in the snow looks quite a bit like ababys foot-prints, and his voice—(bless his littleheart!)—well, I wont say its very musical, butits full of vitality. He squeals up and down thescale regardless of rhyme or rhythm in a frenzyof enjoyment thats all his very own. No oneoutside his own species could possibly understandit. Its very harshness expresses quills and clawsand orange chisel teeth.
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Cuurlcsy of Ihv American Mnscuin of Ncitural Iliatorti Dear Prickly Porky seems to have been Ijoni old. He reminds me of a little old manwho is half sad, half timid, and altogether wistful. He cannot throw his quills, as has beensaid of him, but, when attacked, rolls himself in a ball, every wonderful quill on end, sothat he resembles an over-ripe chestnut burr. Note the Baby Porky in the lower right-handcorner. BABY PORCUPINES 215 Albinos are rare among porkies. I knew ofone which was in central Maine a few seasonsback. It was milk-white in colour, white quillsand deep ruby-coloured eyes. I recently read an authentic report that albinoporcupines are both blind and deaf. This is notat all surprising as albinos are freaks of nature,and we could hardly expect them to be perfectlynatural and normal. The porcupine is probably the safest fromstarvation of any of our woodland friends. Hecan eat anything from green leaves and tenderplants to the little twigs and bark of our ever-green trees.

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