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Title: Animals in action; studies and stories of beasts, birds and reptiles; their habits, their homes and their peculiarities
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter), 1846-1902
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Publisher: Boston, Lothrop pub. co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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espoiling their victim ofhis property ; they rob him also of his life. The woods and fields,the air and the water about us, are teeming with such high-handedvillains, armed with powerful offensive weapons, who seize theirprey with the greatest boldness and cunning. Never are theharmless creatures safe from these rovers. No wonder thatthey place their dwellings in the greatest possible seclusion andventure out of them with trembling caution. Yet often themost constant watchfulness is in vain. Even when everythingseems safe the enemy is lurking in his hiding-place, devisinghow he may seize his unsuspecting victim. Our picture por-trays just such a pitiful scene. The wary wild goose has takena careful look around. The waters lie before her beautiful andstill. Nothing suspicious can be seen, and so Mother Goosethinks that she may venture forth unobserved. But hardly hasshe touched the surface of the water, when, with the swiftnessof lightning, a glistening head makes its appearance, sharp
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4-\ Wild Goose captured by a Fish Otter. THE OTTER AND THE WILD GOOSE. 21 claws hold fast the unhappy victim, and pointed teeth plungeinto the quivering flesh. One choking death-cry, and the deadbody hangs limp in the otters mouth, while the highwaymanswims away with his booty in triumph. The otter is one of the worst malefactors in the animalworld. His form is everywhere known, sharply distinct fromthat of any other beast of prey. Whoever has not seen him infreedom has possibly had occasion to observe him in a zoologi-cal garden or in a menagerie. In the shape of his skull, in hisuncommonly fierce bite, in the elongated, low-lying body, andin the short legs which tread with the whole sole flat upon theground, he resembles his cousin, the marten; but his head issomewhat more rounded than that of the marten. Moreover,as the otter lives largely in the water, his body, and also hislong, tapering tail, are somewhat flattened, and his little eyesand ears are almost hidden in the fur. His f

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