. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . moved and the kernel tucked into acheek pouch. Sometimes the grain was held in one hand and graspedbetween the fingers and the palm as the animal sat up on its heels,but generally it Avas held between the two thumbs to be squirrels work so rapidly that in a few minutes the cheek pouchesbegin to bulge, and in 10 or 15 minutes are puffed out like a bad caseof mumps, and then the animals run away and a little later returnwith pockets empty. In Gunsight and Piegan Passes they were seenon t
. Wild animals of Glacier National Park. The mammals, with notes on physiography and life zones . moved and the kernel tucked into acheek pouch. Sometimes the grain was held in one hand and graspedbetween the fingers and the palm as the animal sat up on its heels,but generally it Avas held between the two thumbs to be squirrels work so rapidly that in a few minutes the cheek pouchesbegin to bulge, and in 10 or 15 minutes are puffed out like a bad caseof mumps, and then the animals run away and a little later returnwith pockets empty. In Gunsight and Piegan Passes they were seenon the rocks near extreme timberline, where they Avere gathering seedsfrom the little wild plants and gleaning a few scattered oats alongthe horse trails. They are generally found near rocks, old logs, orother secure cover under Avhich they burroAv and make their Avinterhomes. They rarely climb trees, although in emergency they canclimb to escape from danger. They are quiet little animals, not soquick and nervous as the chipmunks and generally silent. On rare Wild Animals Glacier Park. fLATE Vlll. FIG. 1.—MANTLED GROUND SQUIRREL IN CHARACTERISTIC UPRIGHT POSITIONOF WATCHFUL ALARM, WATERTON LAKE. ■••^vy-*. ^HBK^JTSHH ; ■■■^ .-^19^ ^^^lAaEM^Si*^^,^^ j^^B^ •s^s-*■■• ^^*^^B FIG. 2.—MANTLED GROUND SQUIRRELS FEEDING ON SCATTERED OATS ATOLD CAMP ON WATERTON LAKE, THE ONE IN FOREGROUND WITHSPREAD TAIL. Wild Animals Glacier Park. PLATE IX.
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