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Title: Four-footed Americans and their kin
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945, ed Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, ill
Subjects: Mammals Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
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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where peoplemay stay who wish to see the wonders of the countrywithout too much trouble. The waste food and refuseof this house is carried to a heap not far away. A swill heap, you mean, dont you, daddy ? askedDodo. I shouldnt think the Government wouldallow a swill heap in a Park. Uncle wont have oneon the farm ; he says they are perfectly barbarousthings, that make pestilence and flies, so the pigs havethe clean scraps and everything else is buried ! You are right there, laughed Mr. Blake, and itis nothing more nor less than the odor of this swillheap, attractive at least from their point of view, thatlures the Bears, both Black and Grizzly, from theirrocky dens to come and feast within eye-shot of HousoPeople. Then I should think the people could shoot them,said Nat. No guns are allowed in the Park, that is one reasonwhy the Bears are so fearless. But I should think the Bears and Panthers andlittle nuisance animals would grow to be too many, andeat up the Deer and other fourfoots.
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Grizzly Beau and Bighokn Sheep. THREE HARDY MOUNTAINEERS 241 They may in time, but the idea, I believe, is to trapthe larger beasts if they increase too freely and sendthem to Zoological Gardens where people may seethem. How long do wild animals live ? asked Dodo. That depends upon the species. House Cats andDogs, you know, are considered quite old at twelve, andseldom live longer than fifteen years. Horses willaverage twenty-five, while on the other hand Squirrelsand Rabbits are old at seven or eight. How long do Bears live ? Perhaps twenty or twenty-five years, but it is verydifficult to judge about wild animals. It is impossibleto keep track of them out of doors. In confinementthey are seldom perfectly healthy, and so do not liveout their natural lives. In fact, among these flesh-eatingfour-foots, every one eats some one else, and it is prob-able that very few live to die of old age. Do Grizzly Bears and Bighorns and Goats live no-where but in the Rockies ? Grizzlies were once foun

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