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Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
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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bou is the American variety of reindeer. Unlike its Europeancousin, it has never been tamed and made to serve man. The caribou has been chased by hunters for a week together and then,after all, escapes. A favorite trick of this animal when hard pressed is tomake for a frozen lake. The hunter always gives in, for, in spite of its clumsymovements, nothing can overtake the caribou once it starts across the ice-fields. The caribou is persecuted by the red and white men for its valuable skin.The little Esquimaux have a novel method of catching several of these creat-ures at once. They dig a pit and arrange a slab of ice over it, so that whenthe caribou passes that way it will be tilted into the pit below. As the slabis pivoted it returns to its original position, to be ready for the next victim. The horns of the caribou are very heavy. In the spring the males havefierce battles among themselves. Sometimes the horns break off, and then thepoor caribou, being defenceless, is speedily killed.
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RED DEER AND DOE. THE RED DEER. Almost everyone knows the general appearance of the Red Deer, withits strong, though slender, limbs, its full, dark eye, and its noble head, withbranching horns. The splendid antlers are rounded and bear three branches(or tines, as they are called) and a crown consisting of three ormore points.These points increase in number with the age of the animal, and when thenumber is twelve the deer is then known as a royal stag. This deer is an inhabitant of many temperate countries. It was oncequite common all over England, being protected by severe forest laws, itslife being regarded as more valuable than that of a man. Now, however, ithas almost disappeared from there, except in a few private parks. But it stillroams among the wilder parts of the Scottish Highlands and Western Isles,the finest specimens being found in the forests of Sutherlandshire. During the month of August the stag begins to mate, and is then verycross. The battles over the female often re

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