. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 84 HOMES WITHOUT ' Earth" of the Fox. climate, it digs to a considerable depth; and it is rather remark- able that a solitary burrow is seldom found, twenty or thirty Foxes generally sinking their tunnels in close proximity to each other. Perhaps this semi-sociality may be accounted for in a very simple manner, namely, the suitability of some particular piece of ground, to which the Foxes flock by instinct, and in which they drive as many burro
. Homes without hands : being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction . Animals. 84 HOMES WITHOUT ' Earth" of the Fox. climate, it digs to a considerable depth; and it is rather remark- able that a solitary burrow is seldom found, twenty or thirty Foxes generally sinking their tunnels in close proximity to each other. Perhaps this semi-sociality may be accounted for in a very simple manner, namely, the suitability of some particular piece of ground, to which the Foxes flock by instinct, and in which they drive as many burrows as the ground will accommodate. This conjecture is the more likely to be true, because sandy spots are always' chosen for this purpose, where twenty or thirty bur- rows are often sunk in close proximity to each other. Such spots would be peculiarly suitable to the Fox, because the sandy soil is not so likely to be hardened by the frost as that of a more compact and watery nature, and would be easily thrown out by the small though powerful feet of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871; Smith, E. A. (Edward Alfred); Pearson, G. (George). New York : Harper & Brothers
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