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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE llOOFKD AXIMALS OF THE YELLOWSTONE 91 and even touch him. Touchinij him however breaks the spell and he totters oil" on unsteady le^s to find his mother, sometimes scjuealin^- like a little pig as he goes. In the course of a week or ten days the muscles become stronger and the legs more serviceable; the mother then leads her one by easy marches to- ward the sunnner ranges away from the heat and the flies which are beginning to be bothersome. Another animal that is widely dis- tributed throughout America, and one that was \-ery important as a meat supply to our pioneer forefathers is the Virginia or white-tailed deer. Here in the Yellowstone it is rare, only about one hvmdred being known to exist. As its range is restricted howe^'er to the lower Gardiner River and to a small sec- tion about Tower Falls, it is frequently seen. Moreover its natural sagacity has led it to appear in numbers at IVIam- moth Hot Springs in winter where it is fed hay by the park scouts. This deer is naturally timid and spends its time hidden in the heavy alder and willow thickets where it finds seclusion and plenty of l)rowse. It has no enemies except an occasional panther; but owing to lack of suital)le range within the Yellowstone it is improbable that it will ever increase in nvunbers. The mule deer however, has a different status. This is the deer known through- out the Rockies as the " black-tailed deer," although the name ought to be restricted to the Columbian black-tail of the coast states. It is preeminently a deer of the open, frequently seen on open, sage-brush hills; and even when it does go into timber, it is apt to select open pine and fir forests in contrast with the thick brushy woods that the white- tailed deer prefers. Estimated con- servatively at twelve hundred, it ■ has
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Bull moose crossing a beaver dam. The moose in Yellowstone are living farther south than any other moose of the country. They number some six hundred and there is splendid prospect for their protection and increase

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