Identifier: americananimallideming (find matches)
Title: American animal life
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Deming, Therese O. (Therese Osterheld), b. 1874 Deming, Edwin Willard, 1860-1942, ill
Subjects: Zoology Animals
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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a more hilly feeding-ground;but, then, he is not a grazing animal, like his deer cousins, but browses upon leaves, bark,or twigs of trees, and also eats the lichens and mosses that hang from the trees. Strangeto say, this great, almost prehistoric, creature loves the water, and his choicest dainty issaid to be the roots of the yellow spatter-docks. Surely, he must love the busy little beaver,which lives in all the streams, for it builds dams and makes lakes where the lily pads willgrow. lave you ever seen the little beaver? He loves the water as well as the land, and hishind feet are completely webbed. He is not very large, though, he is one of the largestrodents. He can, with his big teeth, cut down a tree for building a dam. He has a broad,flat tail, but he uses it only to help him swim, or sometimes when danger is approaching heslaps the water with it, and instantly all his brothers disappear. Wherever the beaver builds his dam, the water is less swift, and the lily pads grow more
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MOOSE AND BEAVER thickly. The moose loves to wander through the dense thickets that grow around thelakes, bogs, and streams of the forest; but when he hears a sound he holds his great muz-zle up, lays his massive crown of palmated horns back on his shoulders—to avoid thebranches—and then runs, with a clumsy, shuffling gait. To increase his speed he simplylengthens his stride; and his hoofs make a queer, clanking noise as he trots along. Whenhe finds a log in his way, no matter how high it may be, he does not stop to jump over;he never changes his gait, but steps a little higher. These same long legs help him whenhe reaches up to peel the bark from young trees, or to bite off the tender shoots. In winter the moose live in the pine woods in the hilly country, where they can browseupon the bark and the juicy evergreens. Several families live together; and when the snowbegins to get very deep they break trails over several acres, where they can travel to findfood. These places are cal

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