. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE PORCUPINES—TREE OR CLIMBING. 357 tucky, its eastern and western boundaries being Lab- rador and the Rocky Mountains. It is not uncom- mon in the forest regions to the west of the Mis- souri, but it is nearly extinct in the east. " The Ur- son," says Cartwright, "is an accomplished climber and probably never descends a tree in winter, before. URSON OR CANADIAN PORCUPINE. Former]? plentiful in the northern United ! rare in this country, alth
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE PORCUPINES—TREE OR CLIMBING. 357 tucky, its eastern and western boundaries being Lab- rador and the Rocky Mountains. It is not uncom- mon in the forest regions to the west of the Mis- souri, but it is nearly extinct in the east. " The Ur- son," says Cartwright, "is an accomplished climber and probably never descends a tree in winter, before. URSON OR CANADIAN PORCUPINE. Former]? plentiful in the northern United ! rare in this country, although not so scarce in Canada is the Urson, otherwise called the Car which an admirable illustration is here given. The strange, blunt head, the long, erectile hai spines, the four strong claws of the fore feet are shown in the animals here portrayed. (Erit/iis, it has entirely denuded the upper branches of bark. It is most partial to the tenderest shoots or seedling trees. A single Urson may ruin hundreds of them during one ; Audubon affirms that he has passed through woods, in which all the trees had been stripped by the Urson, producing an appear- ance similar to that in- duced when a forest has been devastated by fire. Elms, poplars and firs fur- nish its favorite food, and therefore usually suffer more than other trees from its destructiveness. The nest of the Urson is generally found in holes in trees or in rocky hollows, and in it the young, usually two, more rarely three or four in number, are born in April or May. Those that are taken out of the nest and kept in confinement, unlike the common Euro- pean Porcupine, soon be- come accustomed to their master and to their sur- roundings. They may be ied on all kinds of vegeta- bles and are very fond of bread. If given the free- dom of the garden, they mount trees and eat the bark and leaves. Audubon says that an Urson he had in his possession never exhibited anger, except when some one tried to remove it from a
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