Courtesy Carnegit 



Raccoon Procyon lotor loior 



Museum. 



bones and tear flesh, it makes fur garments less attrac- 

 tive. Ofttimes the captured animal dies of cold, thirst, 

 starvation, loss of blood, or suffering. And not infre- 

 quently, its sufferings are ended by brutal beating with 

 a club. Perhaps a litter of young in a distant nest die 

 of starvation when a mother fails to return. And after 



-*H[ 90 ]^- 



