. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. The Marten, the Weasel, the Stoat, and the Polecat are otherEuropean members of this order, chiefly in subarctic and temperateclimes. Their destructiveness to poultry is endless, but they partly makeup for this by their voracity of rats and mice. The Badger is the largest and heaviest of our own predacious quadru-peds. Formerly badgers were kept for badger baiting, the animal
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. The Marten, the Weasel, the Stoat, and the Polecat are otherEuropean members of this order, chiefly in subarctic and temperateclimes. Their destructiveness to poultry is endless, but they partly makeup for this by their voracity of rats and mice. The Badger is the largest and heaviest of our own predacious quadru-peds. Formerly badgers were kept for badger baiting, the animalbeing attacked by a number of dogs while confined in a barrel, its strongjaws and teeth enabling it often to give an account of a considerablenumber of its enemies. The Otter is an aquatic relative of the Bear familj^, and has skillboth on land and in water. They have webbed toes and a powerfultail for swimming, and prey upon fish. They are even trained, in Indiaand China, to catch fish for their masters. Otter-hunting is by no meansextinct in this country. 230 EUROPEAN ANIMALS. The truly Marine Carnivora are represented on most European coastsby the Common Seal (2), from three to six feet in length. It belongs to. 5^.--^;-fe-:!r^^.^N. ^^V/V/g\ ^3^fmfKfc^^^
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