MAMMAL STUDY (continued) 



Feeuing Ov 



TiiE Ground, 

 Number 3 



Volume 13, 



Cottontail rabbit, 13-3: 

 varying hare, 13-3 

 meadow mouse, 13-3 

 woodchuck. 14-1; deer- 

 mouse , I 3-3; chip 

 munk. 14-1 



Activity; learn to know 

 tracks and how made; 

 which feet make larger 

 tracks and why; read 

 "Raggylug" in "Wild 

 Animals I Have 

 Known" 



Skunk. 13-3; common 

 shrew, 13-3!; mole 

 shrew, 13-3; common 

 mole, 1 4-1; star-nosed 

 moL. . 14-1 



Pead tracks in .'lelds and 

 on problem pages; food 

 habits; use or neglect 

 of use of tail and rea 

 son-; home life; teeth 



Winter activities; ene 

 mies and means of prO' 

 tection : storage in 

 stinct developed or un- 

 developed and infill 

 ence of this on habit; 



Economic value of mice, 

 rabbits, and wood- 

 chncVs; mean" of con- 

 trolling them; laws; 

 rabbit project may be 

 cariied on 



Fovmd on ground; ander 

 leaves, or underground; 

 all eating same type of 

 food and have much 

 same type of teeth; 

 read "Cock Robin": 

 food; tracks 



26 

 Peeping Along The Waterways, Volume 13, 

 Number 3 



Miiskrat, 13-3; beaver Mink, 13-3; otter 



Acti -e night or day, 

 mostly at night, seen 

 commonly in or about 

 water; tracks as seen in 

 the mud and runways 

 rmder water 



Compare varia tion of 

 form of bodies of forms 

 seeking insects above 

 ground and beneath 

 types of feet and rea 

 sons for types; teeth 

 track reading 



V'early activity; why sur 

 face feeders must be 

 difTerent in winter 

 preparation from un 

 derg round feeders 

 abundance of food; use 

 of skunks and shrews 



Value of skunks to farm- 

 ers in destroying po- 

 tato bugs, turtles eggs 

 and insects; value of 

 shrews for same reason ; 

 fur value; laws 



Use of tail and hind legs 

 in swimming; method 

 of eating, of warning; 

 nature of fur; interpret 

 problem page Volume 

 14, Number 3 and real 

 tracks; teeth 



Active night and day, 

 mostly niv?ht; use fiu-s 

 as introduction if ani- 

 mal cannot be studied; 

 sly habits ; powerful ; 

 swimmer, fish story 

 13-4; tracks. 



Home life and home 

 building; additional 

 track interpretations 

 enemies and means of 

 protection ; calls ; d i s 

 tribution map 



Game laws and neces- 

 sity of them; fur val- 

 ues; means of trapping 

 humanely; reason for 

 laws against shooting: 

 effect on skin 



Track interpretations 

 (14-3) and outdoor 

 food habits; roaming 

 disposition ; teeth ; fur 



Yearly activity; relation 

 to muskrat and to 

 other forms including 

 game !ish; method of 

 capturing prey and 

 reason for no mljira- 

 tion; distribution map 



Game laws; fur values; 

 destruction of vermin 

 or poultry; which of 

 greater value to farmer 



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