. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . h of the same pale tint. The head is broad androunded, the muzzle pointed, the beadlike eyes aresmall, and the rounded ears (well furred on bothsides) are set low, and scarcely extend beyond thefur in their vicinity. The feet are large and black-ish, with sharp, curved, whitish claws about an inchlong. The wolverene, like others of its tribe, possessesanal glands which secrete a disgustingly nauseous, yel-low-brown fluid, which is discharged by the usualnipplelike duct terminations situated just within theanus; t
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . h of the same pale tint. The head is broad androunded, the muzzle pointed, the beadlike eyes aresmall, and the rounded ears (well furred on bothsides) are set low, and scarcely extend beyond thefur in their vicinity. The feet are large and black-ish, with sharp, curved, whitish claws about an inchlong. The wolverene, like others of its tribe, possessesanal glands which secrete a disgustingly nauseous, yel-low-brown fluid, which is discharged by the usualnipplelike duct terminations situated just within theanus; the odor is ten times as bad as that of theskunk. But a more serious characteristic of this ani-mal is his propensity to steal and hide things. Heannoys the Northern trappers by upsetting theirtraps, stealing the bait, and sometimes killing and de-vouring the martens which are caught. A Mr. Ross relates the following: An instanceoccurred within my own knowledge in which a hunt-er and his family having left their lodge unguardedduring their absence, on their return found it com-. THE LUSCUS. A strange animal with a chunky figure. FURRY FRIENDS WITH FIXE SKIXS. H5 pletely gutted—the walls were there, but nothing , guns, kettles, axes, cans, knives, and all theother paraphernalia of a trappers tent had vanished,and the tracks left by the beast showed who had beenthe thief. The family set to work, and by carefullyfollowing up all his paths, recovered, with some tri-fling exceptions, the whole of the lost property. The most extraordinary habit of this strange ani-mal is thus recounted by Elliott Coues: We neednot go beyond strict facts to be impressed with thewit of the beast, whom all concede to be as cunning asthe very devil. ... It is said that if one only standsstill, even in full view of an approaching carcajou —the Indian name for the wolverene— he will comewithin fifty or sixty yards, provided he be to thewindward, before he takes alarm. . On
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