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 
