. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. Putorma lutreSlus, Mink. The Mink is brown, with a white spot under the chin. It is semi-digitigrade and semi-palmate (webbed), being thus fitted for hunting in the streams for fish, frogs, etc. The Skunk is striped with black aad white; but individuals of the same species differ in their markings. It emits in self-defence an intoler- able odor, that no other animal can endure. The fore feet are adapted to digging holes, in which it hibernates rM '- without becoming torpid —entering its retreat in the fall, fat, and coming out in the spring, lean. The Badg
. Fourteen weeks in zoology. Zoology. Putorma lutreSlus, Mink. The Mink is brown, with a white spot under the chin. It is semi-digitigrade and semi-palmate (webbed), being thus fitted for hunting in the streams for fish, frogs, etc. The Skunk is striped with black aad white; but individuals of the same species differ in their markings. It emits in self-defence an intoler- able odor, that no other animal can endure. The fore feet are adapted to digging holes, in which it hibernates rM '- without becoming torpid —entering its retreat in the fall, fat, and coming out in the spring, lean. The Badger, inhabit- ing the northern part of the continent, has long silky hair and short tail. Its stout claws are well adapted for burrowing. Though so peaceable as to resign its nest without a struggle to those much weaker than itself, it can bite more fiercely than any animal of its size. Its skin is so loose and thick, that while the teeth of its assailants can make little impression upon it, the badger can turn itself round in it, so as to bite them in their tenderost parts. It feeds upon small animals, wliieh it. MepMtis mephiCica, Skunk. ;. resign its nest without night, ae it devours tlie brain and sucks tiie blood, but never eats the flesh of an animal. Its mode of attack is to pounce upon its prey transversely, and piercing the brain at a single bite, to throw itself lengthwise upon the body, to which it clings until the death of its yictim. Its ability to bend the head at right angles with the ueok facilitates this mode of attack—Ennine skins have long been used in England to decorate the robes of judicial ofHcers, and hence their association with ideas of moral purity.—The expression " catch a weasel asleep " is based upon the ease with which the animal may be caught when sleeping, on account of thg Bonndness of its Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colora
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