. American animals [microform] : a popular guide to the mammals of North America, north of Mexico, with intimate biographies of the more familiar species. Mammals; Animals; Mammifères; Animaux. m fully thin and so active as Lardly to be recognized by one familiar only with well-fed summer specimens. Woodchucks arc seldom seen in the open pasture until the snow has about disappeared and the turf begins to feel soft under foot with green grass and clover starting up in sheltered pUces. while those of the cultivated grass lands are still later about showing themselves, so that it would cerUinly s
. American animals [microform] : a popular guide to the mammals of North America, north of Mexico, with intimate biographies of the more familiar species. Mammals; Animals; Mammifères; Animaux. m fully thin and so active as Lardly to be recognized by one familiar only with well-fed summer specimens. Woodchucks arc seldom seen in the open pasture until the snow has about disappeared and the turf begins to feel soft under foot with green grass and clover starting up in sheltered pUces. while those of the cultivated grass lands are still later about showing themselves, so that it would cerUinly seem that the duration of their winter nap depended Urgely on the food supply of the preceding summer. Still t is just possible that all the woodchucks return to the woods to "den ; in order to obtam a more even temperature than would be possible m the open ground. Instances of woodchucks having been unearthed m a state of hibernation in the winter are common enough, but whether in the woods or in the open appears uncertam. in the summer the rambler often meets little woodchucks only a few weeks old. wandering about the fields alone and unprotected, having been driven from their homes by their hard- hearted parents as soon as they were able to shift for them- selves. These little wjifs are not apt to show any alarm on being approached, commonly settling back on their haunches and attempting to bite anything that comes within reach, or else charaing savagely at the intruder, with Uttle husky, gurgling cries of anger. An old woodchuck will occasionally attack the person who threatens him. sometimes it would seem even when he is not cornered or confined in any way. But this is nothing to the perfectly reckless courage with which the youngster en- ters into the combat, as if he felt perfectly sure that he were going to have an easy thing of it. As soon, however as he tt auite that you are not going to retreat, and that he is hardly to be able to dispos
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