. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE BEAVER. 323 imity to them. Being genuine arboreal animals they are marvelous climbers, even among the thinnest twigs. In August from three to four naked, blind young make their appearance in the ball-shaped summer nest, which is always built in the thickest of bushes and about three feet from the ground. Long Hiberna- About the middle of October the tion of Dor- Dormice retire into the hiding-place mice. where they have stored their win- ter provisions,
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE BEAVER. 323 imity to them. Being genuine arboreal animals they are marvelous climbers, even among the thinnest twigs. In August from three to four naked, blind young make their appearance in the ball-shaped summer nest, which is always built in the thickest of bushes and about three feet from the ground. Long Hiberna- About the middle of October the tion of Dor- Dormice retire into the hiding-place mice. where they have stored their win- ter provisions, and prepare a ball-shaped covering made of twigs, foliage, fir-needles, moss and grass; this they wraparound themselves, curl up into a ball and fall into a still deeper torpidity than do their rela- tives; for one can take them up and roll them around without their giving a sign of life. According to whether the winter be mild or severe, they sleep through six or seven months in a more or less un- broken repose, until the beautiful, warm spring sun awakes them to new life. £be Beaver. THIRD FAMILY: Castorid.£. Though corresponding with the preceding Rodents in many respects, the Beaver differs from them and its other relatives in such marked degree that it must be considered as the representative of an entirely distinct family (Castorida). The Beaver has at- tracted attention since the earliest times and is frequently mentioned by ancient authors under the name of " Castor " and " ; Yet the old observers of nature impart little knowledge in respect to its habits. The Beaver is now dis- tributed over three con- tinents in regions be- tween the thirty-third and sixty-eighth de- grees of north latitude. The European countries in which it is most fre- quently found are Bos- nia, Russia, particularly in the northern tributa- ries of the Pripet in the Government of Minsk, and Scandinavia, espe- cially Norway. It is much more numerous in Asia than in Europ
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