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Show Severe Winter Hard on European Wild Beasts Poland's severe winter, colder than any for over 100 years, was felt even more by the wild beasts and birds in the woods than by human beings. The government took energetic steps in its huge forest properties to feed and protect pro-tect the game, and In particular the rare animals which are in danger of extinction elk, bears, beavers and a number of birds. The authorities are anxious lest these share the fate of the European bison, which survived In Polish forests until In the confusion of war and revolution local peasants exterminated ex-terminated them. It was found, however, how-ever, that where the forests contained wild boars, the game needed very little lit-tle help. These animals, by constantly constant-ly rooting with their snouts in the snow, laid bare the ground to such an extent that other animals were able to find food enough to sustain them. |