. Raising Deer and Other Large Game Animals in the United States . a sleigh 234 milesin a day. It is said that this use of elk was finally forbidden underheavy penalties on account of their having been employed to facili-tate the escape of prisoners or suspected criminals, and the domestica-tion of the animals was consequently abandoned. Dr. W. T. Hornaday says of the moose that in captivity it isdocile; not foolishly nervous like most deer, but steady, confiding,and affectionate. Moose are easily handled and trained to drive inharness, and in contact with man manifest more common sense thanan
. Raising Deer and Other Large Game Animals in the United States . a sleigh 234 milesin a day. It is said that this use of elk was finally forbidden underheavy penalties on account of their having been employed to facili-tate the escape of prisoners or suspected criminals, and the domestica-tion of the animals was consequently abandoned. Dr. W. T. Hornaday says of the moose that in captivity it isdocile; not foolishly nervous like most deer, but steady, confiding,and affectionate. Moose are easily handled and trained to drive inharness, and in contact with man manifest more common sense thanany other species of deer with which I am acquainted. ^ In spite of this natural tendency to tameness, the efforts that havebeen made to keep moose in confinement have nearly all failed. Apair were kept in the Cincinnati Zoological Garden for about fiveyears, but this experience is exceptional. Dr. Hornaday expresses o Report U. S. Com. Patents (Agriculture) for 1851, p. 115, Tbe American Natural History, p. 141, 1904. If R I S (.( A.; Plate II. r.
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