. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 310 THE RODENTS OR GNAWING ANIMALS. In youth all Squirrels are lively, playful and very inoffensive creatures, and delight in being petted. They know and love their keeper and show a certain amount of docility in that they respond to their name. Unfortunately nearly all, even the tamest, become deceitful, or at least addicted to biting, in advanced age. The Squirrel's The Marten is the most formidable Foes are foe of the Squirrel. The Fox seldom Ma
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. 310 THE RODENTS OR GNAWING ANIMALS. In youth all Squirrels are lively, playful and very inoffensive creatures, and delight in being petted. They know and love their keeper and show a certain amount of docility in that they respond to their name. Unfortunately nearly all, even the tamest, become deceitful, or at least addicted to biting, in advanced age. The Squirrel's The Marten is the most formidable Foes are foe of the Squirrel. The Fox seldom Many. succeeds in capturing a Squirrel, and Kestrels, Hawks and large Owls it escapes by climb- ing rapidly around a tree in a spiral course, when the birds are after it. As the birds have to describe much greater curves in their flight than the Squirrel does in its climbing, it finally succeeds in reaching a hole or dense foliage on the tree-top, where it is safe from further molestation. It is a different matter to escape the Marten. This bloodthirsty beast climbs as well as its victim and pursues it step by step, in the tree-tops as well as on the ground. Young Squirrels are exposed to many more dangers than old ones; and-quite young animals can even be overtaken by a human being who is a good climber. When we were boys we pursued such young Squir- rels, climbed after them, and the indifference with which they regarded our approach frequently led to their capture. As soon as we could reach the branch on which the young animal sat, it was doomed. We would shake the branch violently up and down, and the thor- oughly frightened Squirrel generally thought only of holding fast, lest it should fall. We would then go farther and farther out, still shaking the branch, until we could seize the little animal with a quick grasp. The Fur of On the banks of the Lena the peas- the Common ants are entirely engrossed by the Squirrel. Squirrel-chase from the beginning of March to the middle of
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