. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. 60 VERTEBRATES: MAMMALS. America. Beavers have a flat, scaly tail, and are wholly aquatic in their habits, and their food is chiefly bark and aquatic plants. Their teeth are very sharp and. Fig. 91. — American Bearer. ' % powerful, enabling them to gnaw down trees of the iiardest wood. Beavers prefer running water, in order that the wood which they cut may be carried to the spot where it is to be used. They keep the water at a given
. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. 60 VERTEBRATES: MAMMALS. America. Beavers have a flat, scaly tail, and are wholly aquatic in their habits, and their food is chiefly bark and aquatic plants. Their teeth are very sharp and. Fig. 91. — American Bearer. ' % powerful, enabling them to gnaw down trees of the iiardest wood. Beavers prefer running water, in order that the wood which they cut may be carried to the spot where it is to be used. They keep the water at a given height by dams, which they build of trees and branches mixed with stones and mud; and they build winter houses with the same materials. Each house consists of two stories; the upper story is above water and dry, and serves as a shelter; the lower is beneath the water, and contains their stores of bark and roots. The only opening to the hut is beneath the surface of the water. The color of the beaver is reddish-brown, and the fur is soft and fine. It lives in the unsettled parts of North America. The Pocket Gopher, Pouched Rat, or Geomys, of the prairies of the Western States, is nine or ten inches. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877; Tenney, Abby Amy (Gove) 1836-. New York, Scribner, Armstrong
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