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Life-histories of Northern Animals 



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with 

 says 

 notes 

 story, 



shoulder. One which Dr. W. T. Hornaday measured when 

 seven weeks old was 37 inches at the shoulder.-" 



The calves continue with the mother throughout the sum- 

 mer. I have been unable to determine whether or not several 

 mothers join company at this season, as with the Wapiti, ad- 

 mitting young males also to their select society. 



The bull Moose has led meanwhile a bachelor life, so far 

 as known. The only evidence to the contrary was supplied by 



Tappan Adney. 

 In answer to the 

 query, Does the 

 bull Moose ac- 

 company the cow 

 while the calf is 

 her ? he 

 "In my 

 I have a 

 related by 

 an old hunter 

 with whom I 

 lived on the To- 

 bique, in New 

 Brunswick, in 

 1896. He was telling me of the time when he first heard a 

 Moose call to another. Though but a small boy then, he was in 

 the woods alone. He was paddling on Sisson Branch of the 

 Tobique, and had stopped his canoe by the bank to rest when, 

 close at hand, he heard a low mooh, mooh, that he thought 

 was a tree rubbing against another. In a moment a calf Moose 

 came out of the bushes followed by the cow, and while he 

 stood gazing a bull Moose appeared. At first they did not 

 notice him, but having only a little shot-gun with birdshot, he 

 was working to untie a bag containing bullets. The move- 

 ment caught the bull's eye; he came toward the boy with brist- 

 ling mane. Before anything happened, the cow and the calf 

 walked away, and then the bull turned and followed them." 



'^Am. Nat. Hist., 1904, p. 140. 



Fig. 79 — Why Moose horns are so seldom found. 



This massive pair from near Mattawa hung in a tree for only se\'en years. The weather 

 and the Porcupines have reduced them to splintered and friable bone that could 

 not last more than three or four years and much less if on the ground. Shot at 

 Foley's Lake bj' Le Royer in i8g8. (He went with the Ziegler expedition.) All 

 rotten and eaten by Porcupine, but not by Mice. Every old vein is now a deep 

 crack. Spread on brow, now 42 inches. 



