| Show DUnn OWING ANIMALS 1 I 1 from dome die DIN 1101 6 for tb be love 1 of t ate I 1 4 4 11 ventilation or rather the want of it must be a difficulty la in the underground life of almost all mammal mammals the rib rub bit and the rat secure a current of air 1 by forming a bolt hole in connection f I 4 aa with their of a hut but the fox the badger and many of the field cold motre and mice seem in lif ferent to any 1 uch such pro precaution caution there li Is no doubt that what whatever eier rive the first impulse to I 1 burrow many jamale look upon thia this to ui us mot most unpleasant exertion as it form of actual amusement aro it alio also confer confers a light to property prairie doge dogs constantly onit antly set to work to dig bole boles I 1 t merely for the love 1 of the thing if they can not have a sul suitable tale place to I 1 ji exe their talent in they will gnaw into boxes or chests of dra drawer viers and there burto y to the great detriment of the clothes therein contained in an prairie dog I 1 towo they have been known to mine until the superincumbent earth collapsed and buried ac the I 1 greater number A young prairie doc dog let et loee lose in a mall gravel floored floured hour house I 1 instantly dug a hole large enough to alt ait in turned round in it and bit the first who attempted to touch him property gave him courage tor for before he had been an as meek ai as a mouse it I 1 la Is noticeable that the two reake st i aej ul ifal itt of u u ir r mice ibo ille 1 1 donlouie donn ouie and the harneit arvest mouse do yr I 1 l not burrow but make neat nests and that f 1 I 1 these do not multiply or maintain their I 1 numbers like the burrowing mice and V voles hut but the fact that there are members of very closely allied spec specials fp ecles ils gome some of which do burrow while hile etheri other I 1 do not seems to indicate that the habit ka la Is an acquired one in this connection those which do not burrow at p other time times fonn burrow burros a in i which hach to conceal and protect I 1 their oung or if it they do bar bur 1 row make a different kind of a more 1 elaborate character among these nursery burrows are those of the dog I 1 10 the fox and san an dmartin the kingfisher and anil the shelldrake bell shell drake foxhound litters net neer er do so well ell as when the mother W 1 allowed to maite a burrow on ilia tb sunny aide side of a in time ume 0 A ahe the will work ork this flys or alx six feet into the tack stack and deop arp the puppies at the far end while abe she ilea lies at the entrance I 1 vixens either dig or appropriate a clean burrow for fur their uba luba which la Is a natural habit or at any rate one acquired W previously to the use of earth 4 by adult foxes foxe eLondon london spectator 14 1 |
