312 Deer and Antelope of North America 



three days. The little fellows get very hungry 

 during this absence and set up a constant cry. 

 When a mother lands she goes about among the 

 thousands hunting her own ; thousands of little 

 voices are constantly coming to her ears — to 

 man they all sound alike, but the seal mother 

 detects her own from nine hundred and ninety- 

 nine thousand other voices ; yet some would have 

 us believe that the bull moose is so stupid as not 

 to know the difference between the call of his 

 mate and the call of a birch-bark horn. I could 

 make innumerable comparisons along this same 

 line, but am willing to allow the readers to draw 

 their own conclusions. I simply assert that when 

 a moose approaches such a horn he does so as he 

 would almost any other strange noise, and he 

 knows that he is not approaching a mate. Under 

 the excitement of the moment he may do foolish 

 things, but he is not a fool. 



The long legs of the moose enable them to 

 travel with ease through miry swamps, deep snow, 

 and among fallen timber. They do not drag their 

 feet through the snow, breaking trail as they go, 

 like cattle, but lift their feet above its surface 

 every step, even though it may reach a depth of 

 twenty-four to thirty inches. Several animals will 

 walk one behind the other, stepping in the same 

 tracks with such care as to leave the impression 

 of but one animal having passed. They can step 



