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Show FAUNAL FACTS Studies of bird feathers indicate that black feathers resist wear better than white; primary wing feathers are subject to most wear; the birds that spend much of their time in flight, the outer portion of the wing is mostly black. Common names for skunks are "polecats" for striped or spotted skunks and "wood pussy" for small spotted skunks. Although a young cottontail rabbit has only one chance in twenty of reaching its 1st birth day is one of our most common animals. The first gun accldmt on record in the Pacific Northwest occurred when a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition shot himself in the derriere when his gun accidently discharged. The ranks of American hunters swelled by 3.8 per cent In 1971 to 15,977,588. At the same time the total U.S. population increased by only 1.3 per cent. Shrews burn energy so fast that they starve quickly without a steady food supply. Their food consumption can be compared to a 175 pound man eat-ng 175 pounds of meat daily. |
