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Title: The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Natural history -- North America
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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I am ac-quainted. Owing to the peculiar nature of the digestive organs ofthis animal, it cannot live long upon ordinary grass or hay,even when supplemented with the best tree-branches that itsown native forests can supply. It is my belief that vigorousdaily exercise is vitally necessary to the proper digestion andassimilation of their food. In capti\dty, even when fed onfresh green browse of the choicest variety, which they eatwith relish, they usually die of gastro-enteritis, or inflam-mation of the stomach and intestines. Green grass is fatalto them, and when fed on grain, hay and vegetables theysoon become emaciated and die. Thus far the best resultsachieved in the maintenance of captive Moose on publicexhibition have been in the Cincinnati Zoological Garden,where Superintendent S. A. Stephen has succeeded in keep-ing a pair for about five years. In great forest preserves,such as Blue Mountain Park, in New Hampshire, Moose dolive, thrive and increase. On the Atlantic coast south of
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AXTLERS OF ALASKAN IMOOSE.In the National Collection of Ilc^ads anrl Horns. New York Zoological Park,author a.s the nncst of all known moose antlers. Regarded 1)y the THE FOOD OF THE MOOSE 117 the Adirondacks, the Moose cannot hve and thrive, andreach old age, and all attempts to induce it to do so havefailed. In a wild state Moose browse upon many kinds of trees,but particularly upon birch, hemlock, spruce, alder, aspen,willow and maple. They reach the tender tops of treesaplings by walking astride of them, and riding them down,and in the manipulation of small branches, the use of theoverhanging and prehensile nose is strikingly apparent.With their strong lower front teeth, used chisel-fashion, theygouge the bark off large branches, and feed upon it. Ingrazing on grass, or feeding upon ground mosses, a Moosemust kneel in order to reach them. During the deep snows of winter. Moose herd togetherin sheltered spots in the forest; and through their movingabout in a small area, the snow is

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