Show C The Nears Extinction SLOW AND BUT lIES lIE'S Sl ATO AFO BY DY y N I CIC President American Nature There Isa large larse mus muscular ular fur fur- fur covered covered animal once abundant In our northern wildernesses whom strange to relate few but natural natural- naturalists naturalIsts naturalists can correctly name on sight This Is the wolverine which Dr Hornaday classes high M In his one onehundred hundred per cent table of ot In- In in intelligent animals For all alt his slug slug- sluggish sluggish gish movement and ungainly ap- ap appearance appearance ap appearance there them is 15 no animal which can outwit a II human more readilY than the wolverine Observation of tho the wolverine by scientists tends to support the theory that there was a time a ILges past when hen it could run and leap with the agility of Its la brothers of the marten family But nut tine timo l as evolved In this creature a strong for fr hurry and the th desire to obtain by cunning and nd brute strength what formerly required skill and speed Like the tha bear the wolverines wolverine's food consists of animals and In- In insects In Insects sects and so grea great Is hi his appetite arid and so sharp Is he ho In stalking his that ho he has rightly earned the name namo of or glutton The den of the 1 Is usually usually ally alty well hidden In a sheltered hollow In the ground or under rocks Nests of leaves are aro made and the litters containing from two to four young oung are ara born horn In InJune inJune June or July Here lIere they aro are kept lato late In the summer pro pro- protected protected by their mother with all altho the tho ferocity of a mother bear They are fully grown when one year old The rho full grown wolverine Is about tho the size of or a fox but is 13 very thick-set thick and muscular The coat of both sexes vexes Is usually ot of ota ofa oa a deep blackish brown blackish brown with bands of chestnut running from the shoulders to the tall tail and the throat and chest are spotted with yellowish white The rhe wolverine Is so hunted for his rich coat that he Is ts well nigh well being wiped off oft or of o the continent The skins find their way ay Into civilized markets In spite of or the he fact that the Eskimos alone lone de demand mand more Inore than can be ba supplied They greatly prize It tor for winter garments because other furs breath docs does not congeal upon It even In that cold atmosphere |