. American animal life . h all have nearly the same habits, and arefound all the way from the Alaskan mountains clear down into Mexico. Little Chief hare, or pika, a queer little fellow, shares this rugged home with the mountain-sheep. He is a tiny creature and belongs to no family but his own, though he looks enough MOUNTAIN-SHHhP AND CHIhF HARE like the little gray rabbit to be a cousin. He lives above timber-line, in the land of perpetualsnow. All summer he carries grasses and many kinds of Alpine plants for his winter sup-ply of food. With these he builds almost a haystack. The pika
. American animal life . h all have nearly the same habits, and arefound all the way from the Alaskan mountains clear down into Mexico. Little Chief hare, or pika, a queer little fellow, shares this rugged home with the mountain-sheep. He is a tiny creature and belongs to no family but his own, though he looks enough MOUNTAIN-SHHhP AND CHIhF HARE like the little gray rabbit to be a cousin. He lives above timber-line, in the land of perpetualsnow. All summer he carries grasses and many kinds of Alpine plants for his winter sup-ply of food. With these he builds almost a haystack. The pikas also love the rock slides, where they find shelter in the crevices, among theboulders. The) are always watchful and alert, and when they see any danger they run asfast as their short legs can carry them. This queer little creature, with little activity, and the great mountain-sheep, who is anagile climber, share this rocky home, and neither has any cause to fear the other, thoughboth fear many of the wood folk LITTLE CHIEF HARE r 4 ■ %
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