WINTER WAYS OF ANIMALS 173 



and only the grizzly remained. After he ran 

 off I found that from fifteen to twenty deer had 

 been swept down by the slide and mixed with 

 the tree wreckage. 



The right kind of winter clothing is an im- 

 portant factor for winter life for both people 

 and animals. The clothing problem perhaps is 

 more important than the food question. 



Winter in the Temperate Zone causes most 

 birds and animals to change clothing to put on 

 a different suit. This usually is of winter weight 

 and in many cases of a different colour than that 

 of the summer suit. Bears, beavers, wolves, and 

 sheep put on a new, bright, heavy suit in autumn 

 and by spring this is worn and faded. The 

 weasel wears yellow-brown clothes during sum- 

 mer, but during winter is in pure-white fur 

 the tip of the tail only being jet black. The 

 snowshoe rabbit has a new suit at the beginning 

 of each winter. This is furry, warm, and pure 

 white. His summer clothes are a trifle darker 

 in colour than those of other rabbits. If there is 

 no snow he eats with his feet on the earth or on 

 a fallen log or rock pile, but if there is a deep 

 snow he has snowshoes fastened on and is ever 

 ready to go lightly over the softest surface. 



In these ways hibernating, eating stored 

 food, or living as in summer time from hand to 

 mouth the animals of the Temperate Zone 



