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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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t as soon as it has seized them. In this mannerit destroys large numbers of hares and other rodents, and isnot afraid to attack even larger prey. Throughout the pampasor jungles of South America there wanders the beautiful andinoffensive pampas deer, which is plentiful in Paraguay, Uru-guay, Brazil, and some parts of the Argentine Republic. Thebody of this charming creature is about fifty inches long, itsHmbs are slender, its eyes large and mournful. All throughthe heat of the day, the little deer lies curled up in its bedamidst the shades of the lush grass, but at sundown it venturesfrom its sleeping quarters aiid wanders to the streams andsprings to drink its fill and to crop the sweet grasses. Thewily tayra watches its chance to spring upon the harmlesscreature and to tear it to pieces for its evening meal. Sucha painful episode of the hfe of the pampas is shown in ourpicture. The poor deer has already given up the struggle,because it is pinned down too securely to hope for escape.
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Tairas pouncing on a Pampas Deer. AN ELK AT BAY. 331. An Elk at Bay. THE elks (or Alces) are the giants of the deer family, andlike all the other giants, from Anak down to moderntimes, are fast vanishing from the face of the earth.The family now has but one representative in existence.Scientists have not yet agreed to regard the American mooseas a distinct species of elk. The elk is, indeed, a formidablebeast. The adult animal ranges from nine to ten feet in length,and the larger specimens reach a weight of a thousand pounds.A few small herds of the European elk are to be found in theprivate preserves of German noblemen, where they are keptunder the strictest protection. In its natural state, the elk is tobe met with, rarely, in the Baltic provinces, in parts of Swedenand Norway, and a few regions of Russia. The physical char-acteristics of the elk are well calculated to give him an appear-ance of ferocity, for he is a huge, clumsy, long-legged animal, withspadelike antlers, a large u

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