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Title: Familiar wild animals
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lottridge, Silas Alpha, 1863-
Subjects: Animal behavior
Publisher: New York, H. Holt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the others, and supporting a most magnificenttail. He became very tame, and appeared to be sovain over his fine appearance that I photographedhim one morning while he was having breakfast. For the protection of these beautiful mammals wehave laws; but all the laws in Christendom, howeverwell enforced, cannot prevent animals that naturallymake their homes among the larger timber fromleaving when the forests are destroyed. It is a pitythat, with our boasted civilization, there seems to besuch a wanton destruction of our trees. It may bethe heredity of habit that drives us madly on to denudethe hills and mountains, thus leaving them bare, un-sightly, and untenanted. The result is invariablythe same, to dry up our springs and streams and todrive from us the gray squirrels and other animals.If this continues for another twenty years, as it hasfor the past twenty, the gray squirrels will be countedamong our rare animals. In Central New YorkI have seen but one black squirrel in the last ten
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C o wH The Gray Squirrel 53 years. West of the Great Lakes both grays andblacks are quite plentiful, but it seems that they too arenow dwindling in number, and will finally be entirelyexterminated.

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