MAMMAL STUDY (continued) 



Feeding On Wast-^ Rcacengers, Volume i3 

 Number 3 



Common mouse,' 14-1 ; 

 use white mice for 

 studv if you wish 



Active night and day; 

 common about houses 

 and barns; timid; dust- 

 colored and not easily 

 seen; long whiskers, 

 long tail; food 



Common rat, 14-1: use 

 white rats for study if 

 you wish. 



Active night and day; 

 too common about 

 dwellings and store- 

 houses; vicious dispo- 

 sition; food; clever- 

 ness, braveness 



Use of tail when climbing 

 about a trap or over 

 high places; method of 

 eating; enemies; calls; 

 tracks in snow or dust, 

 especially tail track 



Home life, especially 

 nesting material and 

 nature and number of 

 young; show that ab- 

 • sence or protection of 

 food is a preventative 



Means of controlling in- 

 creasing abundance of 

 mice; relation to health 

 and wealth of a house- 

 hold ; superiority of 

 traps and poisons over 

 cats 



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Preying Animals, Volume 13, Number 3 



Red fox. 13-3; dog 



Most active at night; 

 covers wide range of 

 territory; type of tracks 

 and how made; use 

 furs as approach if 

 necessary; read "Uncle 

 Remus" 



Use of tail in climbing 

 and of fore feet in eat- 

 ing; tracks and their 

 interpretation; length 

 of fore and hind feet 

 and hobbling gait; calls; 

 enemies 



Home life, especially 

 number of young and of 

 broods; relation of rats 

 to destruction of gar- 

 bage; compare damage 

 done by rats, skunks, 

 and other forms 



Means of eradication; 

 amount of damage to 

 supplies; skunks do 

 mostly good, rats al- 

 most none; which get 

 the worse treatment 



Track i n t e rpretations ; 

 toe marks; nature of 

 food and teeth; man- 

 ner of eating; wisdom; 

 call; use of tail, when 

 running, when lying 



Cat, 14-4; common wea- 

 sel, 13-3; least weasel, 

 13-3 



Naturally most active at 

 night; types of tracks 

 and how made; play; 

 stealthiness; ears and 

 tail and what they can 

 tiill you; food 



Home life: relation to 

 rabbits, mice, -and 

 game; additional track 

 i n t e rpretations ; ene- 

 mies and cleverness in 

 nrotecting self 



Game laws; fur values; 

 value of dogs and foxes 

 to man 



Track interpretations; 

 method of catching 

 food; absence of toe 

 marks and reason ; 

 mean? of keeping claws 

 sharp 



Care of young; nature of 

 young; enemies and 

 means of protection ; 

 relation to birds, game, 

 and mice 



Real and ai-ccpted value: 

 Id mm. rho ilitTorcnro'^ 

 y-Anu- laws 



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