. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . the abundance oftracks and the extent of the range,they must run into the thou-sands. If their enemies, the coy-otes and mountain lions, couldbe kept down, their increasewould be so* rapid that a greatoverflow into surrounding areaswould inevitably take- place. Even in their present abundancethey are often seen along the trails and near the hotels andcamps in summer. At Granite Park they are common, and incrossing Kootenai Pass from Waterton Lake to Granite Park we sawabove timberline near the sum
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . the abundance oftracks and the extent of the range,they must run into the thou-sands. If their enemies, the coy-otes and mountain lions, couldbe kept down, their increasewould be so* rapid that a greatoverflow into surrounding areaswould inevitably take- place. Even in their present abundancethey are often seen along the trails and near the hotels andcamps in summer. At Granite Park they are common, and incrossing Kootenai Pass from Waterton Lake to Granite Park we sawabove timberline near the summit of the pass on the western spur ofCathedral Peak, or what the guides call Flat Top Mountain (notthe Flat Top of the map), a beautiful bunch of thi-ee bucks anda yearling. They were lying in the shade of rock shelves on the coldslope when first seen at 2 p. m., and allowed the saddle and packhorses to come close up before they spread their great white tailsand loped over the ridge ahead of us-. They showed very little fearand much curiosity, and would lope a little way in advance and wait. Fig. 5.—Head of white-tail deer at Bel-ton, Mont., with characteristic single-beam antlers, small ears, and obscureface markings. 36 WILD ANIMALS OF GLACIER KATIONAL tor US to come up, watching curiously, undecided whether to run orstand their ground. While standing watching us the} kept raisingand spreading their tails and occasionally waving them from side toside, like signal flags. A ^^earling was especially active in wavingits tail, often switching it rapidly from side to side through a fullhalf circle. When the tail was raised and the long lateral whitehairs thrown open on each side at right angles to the shaft, a hugewhite fan, fully a foot wide and a foot and a half high, was , set above the white hams and belly, screened most of the bodycolor of the deer and explains what seems to be an incomprehensibleexpanse of white that, as the deer bound away through the
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