WITH UNCLE SAM'S NATURALISTS. RELEASE Friday, June 5. I93I. 



NOT FOR PUBLICATION 



SPEAKING TIHE: 10 ilinutes. 



ANNOUNCE}/IENT ; Here is a talk with teeth in it! The tearing teeth of coyotes, 

 and wolves, and mountain lions, and bobcats I Uncle Sam's natTiralists in the U. S. 

 Biological Survey have pointed out to our Wilds Hnn sone of the activities of 

 predatory animals. All right, Mr. ^ilds Han, Shoot! 



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Listen, folks! 



You may hear the faint echoes of the howl of the wolf, or the coyote, or 

 the bobcat before we get through. 



I t?^ke it, you folks love nature, and the wild life in the big outdoors. 

 But beneath all the beauty, there is a fierce struggle for existence, with one 

 kind of animal often pre^'ing upon another. 



Since long before the dawn of history, bobcats, coyotes, wolves and mountai 

 lions have pulled down victims in -olenty. Sometimes their pickings '-"ere lean, bac 

 in the old days. 



Then along came man with his flocks and herds and other domestic stock. 



To many a h\ingry wolf it may have seeaeS. like a dream of a wonderful banquet come 



x'ue a haopy hunting ground in this world. With a readily available supply of 



food to be preyed upon day after day and night after night, what co-old be more 

 natural than for the predators to turn to it? 



Of course, our pioneers and early ranchers resisted they had no choice. 



They had to fight the predatory anL-aals as best they could. The prowlers grew 

 more wary, but kept up coming to the feast that was theirs for the taking. G-\ine, 

 and traps, and poisons were used against them, but the predators flourished and 

 multiplied. 



T7exl, you know the story of advfincing settlement and crowding back the 

 frontier. 



In soae of the more thickly settled parts of the country, we sometimes fail 

 to realize that the fight to protect domestic livestock from wild animals is 

 still going on. The United States Biological Survey cooperating with the States 

 maintains a corps of expert hunters and trappers to aid in holding in check these 

 enemies of the livestock producer. 



