. Animals competitors; profit and loss from the wild four-footed tenants of the farm. Zoology, Economic. [from old catalog]. THE GRAY GOPHERS 119 The rapidity with which the animal works is amazing. In his rare monograph on the fam- ily Merriam assures us that a pocket-gopher can make two hundred complete strokes with his teeth in a minute. Its jaws are so arranged that thirty-eight distinct single cuts are made. SOUTHERN POCKET GOPHER (GEOMYS BURSARIUS). From a Painting by E. T. Seton. by the forward stroke of the jaw and twenty- eight by the backward stroke. Thus, the little creature's jaws
. Animals competitors; profit and loss from the wild four-footed tenants of the farm. Zoology, Economic. [from old catalog]. THE GRAY GOPHERS 119 The rapidity with which the animal works is amazing. In his rare monograph on the fam- ily Merriam assures us that a pocket-gopher can make two hundred complete strokes with his teeth in a minute. Its jaws are so arranged that thirty-eight distinct single cuts are made. SOUTHERN POCKET GOPHER (GEOMYS BURSARIUS). From a Painting by E. T. Seton. by the forward stroke of the jaw and twenty- eight by the backward stroke. Thus, the little creature's jaws may make a grand total of 13,200 cut a minute when in active opera- tion! Large trees are sometimes entirely girdled. 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 Ingersoll, Ernest, 1852-1946. New York, Sturgis & Walton company
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