. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. path round a line of traps extending forty, fifty, orsixty miles, and render the whole unserviceable, merely to come to the baits, whichare generally the head of a partridge or a bit of dried venison. They are not fondof the martens themselves, but never fail of tearing them in pieces, or of buryingthem in the snow by the side of the path, at a considerable distance from the pertinacious, indeed, are these animals, in quest of slaughtered carcases, that theyhave been known to gnaw through a thick log of wood, and to
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. path round a line of traps extending forty, fifty, orsixty miles, and render the whole unserviceable, merely to come to the baits, whichare generally the head of a partridge or a bit of dried venison. They are not fondof the martens themselves, but never fail of tearing them in pieces, or of buryingthem in the snow by the side of the path, at a considerable distance from the pertinacious, indeed, are these animals, in quest of slaughtered carcases, that theyhave been known to gnaw through a thick log of wood, and to dig a hole severalfeet deep in frozen ground, in order to gain access to the body of a deer concealedby hunters. Another very curious propensity of the glutton is its habit of stealingand carrying away to some distance articles which can be of no possible use to it,and an instance is recorded where these animals removed and concealed the wholeparaphernalia of an unoccupied hunters lodge, including such articles as guns, axes,knives, cooking-vessels, and
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