. The Natural history of quadrupeds and cetaceous animals [microform] : from the works of the best authors, ancient and modern, embellished with numerous plates, accurately coloured from nature. Mammals; Mammifères. 416 GLUTTOtl. fip^ure seems io alter. Tfaug YOracioust)' it con* tinues eating till, inc/«pable of any other anin\al function, it lies totally torpid by the animal it has killed ; and in this sitnation continues for two or three days. In this loathsome and helpless state, it finds its chief protection from its horrid smell, ^hich fbw animals care to come ucdr; so that it -continues
. The Natural history of quadrupeds and cetaceous animals [microform] : from the works of the best authors, ancient and modern, embellished with numerous plates, accurately coloured from nature. Mammals; Mammifères. 416 GLUTTOtl. fip^ure seems io alter. Tfaug YOracioust)' it con* tinues eating till, inc/«pable of any other anin\al function, it lies totally torpid by the animal it has killed ; and in this sitnation continues for two or three days. In this loathsome and helpless state, it finds its chief protection from its horrid smell, ^hich fbw animals care to come ucdr; so that it -continues eating and sleeping till its prey be de* vourcd, bones and all, and then it mounts a tree, in ^ucst of another adventure. j , . l^c glutton, like many of th^wc^dcHdind, seems to prefer the most putrid flesh to that newly killed; and such is the voraciousness of ttiis hateful crea. ture, that, if its swiftness and strength were equal to its rapacity, it >V(>u1d soon'^thin the forests of every other living ciTatore. But, fortunately, it iv so slow, that there is scarce a quadruped that canuoi escape it., except the beaver. Tliis, therefore, it very frequently pursues upon land ; hUt the bea- ver generally makes good Its retreat by taking to the water, where the glutton has no chance to luccced. This pursuit only happciis in summer ; for in winter all that remains is to attack the boa- ter's house, as at that time it never stirs froiri homo. This attack, however, seldom succeeds; for the beaver has a covert way bored under tlic ice, and the glutton has only the trouble and (lis* appointment of sacking an empty town. A life of necessity generally produces a gooS fertile invention. The glutton, continually prrsscd by the call of appetite, and having neithei^swifttjcss nor activity to satisfy it, is obliged io make up by stratagem the defects of nature. It is bflou seen to examine the traps and the snares laid for other animals, in order to anticipate ^he fbvvlers. It is sai
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