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Title: Wild life conservation in theory and practice; lectures delivered before the Forest School of Yale University, 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Walcott, Frederic Collin, 1869-1949
Subjects: Game protection
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rotector of wild life, the most charmingtrait of wild-life character is the alacrity and con-fidence with which birds and mammals respond tothe friendly advances of human friends. At thepresent critical stage of our subject, this state ofthe wild-animal mind constitutes a factor of greatimportance in arresting the extermination of speciesand in bringing them back to safe ground. Thisresponse to mans protection is manifested not onlyin harmless quail and song-birds, squirrels, rabbitsand beavers, but also in deer, elk, moose, mountainsheep, antelope and grizzly bears. The tameness of squirrels in city parks is wellknown. Within the past year, a covey of wild quailhas come several times to a rocky ledge withinforty feet of our office window in the ZoologicalPark. I have scared gray rabbits off the frontdoor mat of the Administration Building. InDecember, a gray squirrel entered my office at anopen window, evidently seeking new nest-liningmaterials among the dry scientific pamphlets that
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Qo H H HK H THE LEGITIMATE USE OF GAME 115 covered my side-table. In Putnam County, NewYork, the deer feed in pastures with the cows andbrowse in the gardens. Near Port Jervis, NewYork, a ruffed grouse recently nested and hatcheda brood within two feet of the foundation of anoccupied house. In the Wichita Bison Range, inOklahoma, many thousand wild ducks now fre-quent the small stream that runs through it, anduntil seen in photographs their masses are unbeliev-able. At Palm Beach and Tampa, Florida, thewild ducks know the boundary lines of their pro-tected area quite as well as do any of the gunners.On their protected waters, they are fearless of man,but beyond the dead-line they immediately becomewild and wary. The most conspicuous of all cases of the recogni-tion of protection by wild animals is to be foundin the Yellowstone Park. This feeling of security isshared by nearly all the wild animals of the Park,but it is most strikingly displayed by the herds ofmule deer, antelope and el

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