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THE AMERICAN MOOSE 



youngsters manifested no concern at being aban- 

 doned by their mother. The party in two canoes 

 were in quest of trout. When the camera had 

 done its work the men returned to their canoes and 

 pushed off from shore, but the young moose 

 followed into the water. Both showed some 

 distress at being abandoned by their new-found 

 friends, and one put his fore feet over the gunwale 

 of one of the canoes in an effort to climb into it. 

 The two calves were then taken back to the land, 

 and carried by the guides some distance from the 

 shore, where they were left, the guides returning 

 at top speed to the canoes. As the canoes were 

 paddled rapidly up the river the calves were seen 

 making their way as fast as their feeble young 

 legs would carry them toward the shore again, 

 but the mother was nowhere in sight. Later in 

 the day the party returned that way, but could 

 find neither the cow nor calves. No doubt the 

 little family, reunited, was safe in some friendly 

 thicket." 



The moose is a ruminant, and is often seen 

 standing listlessly chewing the cud. His dietary 

 is more varied than that of most deer. It in- 



' 2' See "How We Tamed Calf Moose," by Chauncey J. Hawkins, ia 

 Outing for November, 191 1. See also "Baby Moose," by A. W. 

 Dimock, in Country Life in America for May, 19 10. 



