DEER FAMILY 



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For more than an hour the animal prevented 

 the occupants of the canoe from landing; then 

 he galloped — not trotted — away. A couple 

 of hundred yards on, the beast reappeared, and 



as we approached he struggled to his feet, grunt- 

 ing savagely, and 1 killed him as he came to us." 

 In forest preserves the Moose will thrive, but 

 in zoological parks it seldom survives longer than 



By pe^missi^n of the U. S. Biological Survey 



Drawing by Carl Rungius 



ALASKA MOOSE 



The Alaska Moose is the largest of its tribe. This spirited drawing shows a 



characteristic attitude 



after firing over its head without scaring it in 

 the least, the Colonel " put a bullet into his chest. 

 It was a mortal wound and stopped him short. 

 I fired into his chest again. He turned and 

 recrossed the stream, falling at a third shot : but 

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five or six years, usually dying of some affection 

 of the stomach and intestines, although fed on 

 " the best tree branches that its own native for- 

 ests can supply." It is docile in captivity and has 

 been trained, like the Wapiti, to run in harness. 



