. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. WH Life-histories of Northern Animals 1' tt I 1 i'ii • {;, ; >I. 1882. unprecedented for its mildness, I several times observed it in Lewis County, in Northern New ; But the original recorder of the hibernation of Zapus, Dr. B. S. Barton, of Philadelj i, makes these somewhat contrasting observations in 1804:*" " In the month of August, 1796, one of these little animals was brought to me from the vicinity of this city. It was put into a large
. Life-histories of northern animals [microform] : an account of the mammals of Manitoba. Mammals; Mammals; Mammifères; Mammifères. WH Life-histories of Northern Animals 1' tt I 1 i'ii • {;, ; >I. 1882. unprecedented for its mildness, I several times observed it in Lewis County, in Northern New ; But the original recorder of the hibernation of Zapus, Dr. B. S. Barton, of Philadelj i, makes these somewhat contrasting observations in 1804:*" " In the month of August, 1796, one of these little animals was brought to me from the vicinity of this city. It was put into a large glass jar, where I was so fortunate as to preserve it for near four months. Though it made many efforts to escape from its confinement, it seemed, upon the whole, pretty well reconciled to it. It continued active, and both ate and drank abundantly. I fed it upon the bread, the grain of Indian corn {Zea mays), and the berries of the Prinos verticillatus, some- times called black-alder. "On or about the zid of November it passed into the torpid state. It is curious to observe that, at the time it became torpid, the weather was unusually mild for the season of the year, and moreover the animal was kept in a warm room, in which there was a large fire the greater part of the day and night. I sometimes roused it from its torpid state; at other times it came spontaneously out of it. During the intervals of its waking it both ate and drank. It w^s frequently most active while the weather was extremely cold in December; but when I placed the jar upon a thick cake of ice, in the open air, its movements or activity seemed wholly directed to the making of a comfortable habitation out of the hay with which I supplied it. It was sufficiently evident, however, that the cold was not the only cause of its torpid state. It was finally killed by the application of too great a degree of heat to it, whilst in its torpor. " During its torpor it commonly laid with its head between its
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